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Alcoa unveils major advance in aluminum manufacturing technology; new Micromill targeting future automotive aluminum products

Green Car Congress

The Micromill will enable the next-generation of automotive aluminum products, and equip Alcoa to capture growing demand from automakers for lighter-weight, yet durable and formable materials. It will also be the fastest, most productive aluminum casting and rolling system in the world, Alcoa claims.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

Baua Electric

Alternative places in Texas come with Corpus Christi, Houston, Katy and San Antonio. AutoNation disclosed in February that it had 20 backup AutoNation USA retail outlets beneath construction, with a minimum of part of them slated to obvious within the upcoming while. retailing 229,971 unused cars in 2022. ranks Refuse.

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Toyota investing $1B in new TNGA plant in Mexico, realigning North American manufacturing; expansion in Guangzhou

Green Car Congress

As part of this strategy, Toyota will invest approximately US$1 billion to construct its newest North American manufacturing facility in the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexico to produce the Corolla. The truck beds are used in production at TMMBC and at TMMTX in Texas.). million cars and trucks (more than 2.35

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric

Charged EVs

Used by individual owners and businesses alike, pickups are a massive part of the auto market—20 percent in 2021, totaling nearly 3 million units, according to Motor Intelligence. A big part of the Lightning’s appeal has turned out to be a use case that has nothing to do with on-road performance. vehicle line for more than 40 years.

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Toyota to Exit NUMMI in March 2010

Green Car Congress

Toyota Motor announced it will end its Corolla and Tacoma production contract with New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. NUMMI) on 31 March 2010 and shift production of those vehicles to Toyota wholly-owned facilities. We remain strongly committed to maintaining a substantial production presence in the USA and North America.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. It even traveled to Mars as part of the. In 1992, Asad M. And he had a problem. defense industry.

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Flash Drive: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

Clean Fleet Report

Ford plans to lead in vehicle electrification by committing $22 billion to electrifying its cars, crossovers, SUVs and trucks through 2025. Concept To Production. Clean Fleet Report recently had the opportunity to drive the F-150 Lightning at a media event in San Antonio, Texas. The Ford F-150 moves into a new era.

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