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VW Chief Executive Says Company Will Introduce EVs Based on the Up! New Small Family in 2013; Cautions Against Electro-Hype

Green Car Congress

With electromobility, the automobile industry faces a fundamental technological upheaval.Our path leads away from oil, to emission-free mobility, and the electric car plays a key role.CO The imminent collapse of traffic in megacities such as Mumbai, Mexico City or Bangkok. 2 -neutral fuels play another key role.

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Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford Asks UAW to End Strike

The Truth About Cars

From AP : The company, he said, builds more vehicles in America and has more United Auto Workers employees than any company, which has increased its costs in a highly competitive industry. Many of our competitors moved jobs to Mexico as we added jobs here in the U.S.,” [Chairman] Ford said.

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Will a US tariff hike on Chinese EVs keep them out?

Baua Electric

automobile industry as a whole.” It also seeks to apply a 100% tariff to vehicles assembled in Mexico by China-based automakers. market by importing cars from Mexico. BYD, for example, is reportedly considering a Mexico plant. Mexico already builds many U.S.-bound

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Trump promises 100% tariff on Mexico-built Chinese cars—EV or not

Baua Electric

Former President Donald Trump has announced that he would apply a tariff of 100% to cars built in Mexico by Chinese companies for U.S.-market In a Saturday campaign speech in Dayton, Ohio, Trump said that over a period of 30 years Mexico has taken away 34% of the automobile manufacturing business in the U.S.

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