Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2020

Rivian is the only one of a group of well-funded upstart EV makers to have a strong presence in the traditional heart of the American auto industry—the Detroit area.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2012

Next week's Detroit Auto Show promises to be the busiest and most influential in several years. With the auto industry continuing to recover slowly from its 2008 meltdown and Chinese sales rising, both U.S. and overseas automakers will launch new models and show off gleaming concept cars. The largest.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 14, 2023

the New England International Auto Show has been canceled twice in a row due to low dealer inventories and waning financial investments from automakers. Elsewhere, it's already been a busy year in the auto industry as EVs take over the market. Here in the U.S., Image: Ice_Blue via Shutterstock] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

Relative to the last downturn, operating profiles are more resilient as a result of capacity reduction, lower fixed costs, and a more manageable labor cost structure linked to the recently ratified United Auto Workers (UAW) contracts. —“2012 Outlook: US Auto Manufacturers and Suppliers”. than was seen in 2010 and 2011.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

Auto Industry’s Financial Performance ,” says that fuel economy standards can provide automakers and suppliers the regulatory certainty necessary to stimulate investment in advanced technologies, such as electric vehicles and fuel efficient vehicles, that are necessary for automakers’ long-term financial health. —Alan Baum.

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Teslarati

JUNE 9, 2023

The move by the two Detroit giants is seen as a major boost for Tesla, whose Supercharger Network has been a difference-maker in the EV ownership experience of its consumers. The partnership between Tesla, Ford, and GM is a sign that the auto industry is embracing battery electric vehicles as mainstream forms of transportation.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 17, 2011

The North American International Auto Show 2011 (the Detroit Motor Show as it is colloquially known) opened its doors to the public last Saturday (Jan 15) with many anticipating one of the most spectacular line-ups in the show’s 104-year history. With the auto industry enjoying a resurgence, [.]. The Green Piece Column.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2016

In all of our fuel price scenarios (from Very Low to High), the auto industry would be profitable if current standards stay in place. —co-author and independent auto industry analyst Dan Luria. In that event, the Detroit Three automakers could lose 300,000 vehicle sales, $1.08 billion in profits, and 1.9

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

According to the study, higher fuel economy standards would benefit the Detroit 3 automakers the most. According to the report, “Fixing Detroit: How Far, How Fast, How Fuel Efficient?” mpg) would increase Detroit automakers’ gross profits by roughly $3 billion per year and increase sales by the equivalent of two large assembly plans.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

There was almost zero Chinese presence, which surprised me given how much the Chinese auto industry has grown and given all the talk about how Chinese automakers could enter our market. Next up, Detroit -- which returns to the cold gray of January next year. I wish I'd gotten a pic.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“In the auto industry, Detroit is leading the world in electric vehicles. This is something that the US President has emphasized, even as General Motors noted in its Q4 2021 shareholder deck that it held a 0.0% share of the US EV market in the fourth quarter. . Credit: General Motors. You know how critical it is?

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2023

He said he doesn’t want to shake the hands of the CEOs until they come to him with a good deal.” — Michael Martinez, Automobile Information reporter, at the UAW president’s determination to forgo the ordinary handshaking ceremonies with Detroit 3 CEOs as word talks start “The trick for the auto industry to do this is not to discover the material.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2022

The Detroit-based automaker aims to roll out seven new EVs in Europe by 2024 with an annual production capacity of 600,000 vehicles by 2026. In March, Ford announced that its EV unit – known as Model e – would take steps to expand its EV presence in Europe as the region is a highly-competitive market for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

auto industry, buyers have been slower to catch on to the concept. According to the Detroit Free Press, research by Edmunds shows. After years of slow sales around a decade ago, Toyota has now sold over 4 million hybrids. And Honda recently passed its first million. But in the home of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2009

Detroit Free Press. The moves would allow the president to fulfill a campaign promise to let the California limits take effect while addressing the chorus of concerns from a financially beleaguered US auto industry about meeting a so-called patchwork of state-level greenhouse gas controls, in addition to federal fuel economy rules.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 13, 2009

We went to Detroit recently to see Bob Lutz. Lutz lives in a spread that can best be described as “bucolic,” in a quietly lovely suburb outside of Detroit. Bob didn’t emote too much over the state of the car industry and Detroit as a whole, but, surprisingly, his wife did. We found Bob smoking a cigar on his Segway.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2012

auto industry worried that Chinese carmakers would use inexpensive cars to gain a foothold here, just as Japanese and Korean makers had done. More recently, the Detroit Three worried that Chinese makers would. Several years ago, the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2015

The great thing about the Detroit Auto Show is that it brings so many global auto industry executives together under one roof.

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Baua Electric

JULY 27, 2024

Wall Street keeps a close eye on how pickup sales are trending because big trucks are still Detroit carmakers’ profit engine. Just as the Detroit brand is down to making only the Pacific minivan, the Italian marque Lancia has just one model currently — the Ypsilon — which is virtually the same car as the Peugeot 208. .”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

Now, a new process developed at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory should make it more feasible for the auto industry to incorporate magnesium alloys into structural components. Energy is saved since the heat generated at the billet/die interface is the only process heat required to soften the magnesium.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The Detroit News reported that GM has decided to produce the Cadillac Converj, an extended range electric vehicle derived from the Voltec platform. Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Earlier post.) A production date has not been set, according to the report.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2023

‘WE CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE’ A spokesperson for Champagne stated Friday the “auto industry is crucial to the Canadian economy and to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers.” ” “We proceed to barter in excellent religion with our companions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2012

In-wheel electric drive startup Protean Electric ( earlier post ) has formed relationships with several leading companies in the global auto industry to accelerate its in-wheel electric drive systems to market in high-volume production. The suppliers and partners are: FEV, based in Aachen, Germany and Auburn Hills, Mich.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. 2 of 3) Driven by Detroit This strategic decision is part of what makes Bright different from the other startups offering to retrofit hybrid cars or to sell plug-ins. car Because unlike the 100 m.p.g.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite not having the best financial portfolio of the Detroit automakers, the Blue Oval was consistently offering the union the sweetest deals and can now take credit for being the company that finally paid up in hopes of ending the strike. Say whatever you want about Ford.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2010

The sale of Nexteer to PCM supports our objective to focus on our core auto business and is the final step in our efforts to position Nexteer as an independent supplier. The sale better enables Nexteer to take advantage of anticipated growth in the global auto industry with a variety of automakers.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The UAW’s promises with the Detroit 3 expire Sept. “It’s really about the level of dedication companies have to the auto industry,” he stated. The logistics trade residue in a moderately fragile situation, as evidenced by way of the Aug. 7 chapter of trucking corporate Yellow Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

ArcelorMittal , a multinational steel products company, and Diversitak , a Detroit-based automotive polymer material manufacturer/supplier, will team with experts from Oak Ridge and Idaho national laboratories to reinforce very thin sheets of advanced high strength steel with a carbon fiber epoxy coating and conduct component testing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Prior to Tesla, Thomas was Director of Special Projects at Magna Steyr, VP and Division General Manager at auto supplier Collins & Aikman, and a powertrain component design engineer and powertrain system project and project engineer for 10 years. Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. Click to enlarge. Gen 2 system in a rolling chassis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Detroit Free Press. s remaining brakes and suspension businesses—the most high-profile acquisition yet by the Chinese in the US auto industry. The Chinese auto supplier Tempo Group, which has its US research and development operations in Canton, will acquire a 24% stake in the Delphi businesses.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

One regional manufacturing trend sparking interest is the “3-crew” or “3-2-120” shift pattern (wherein three crews work two shifts at 10 hours for six days a week) being implemented at select Detroit 3 plants to help meet the excess demand, which allows for increased assembly utilization. Developing Asia-Pacific. million units.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

and Verizon Telematics, were supporting the launch of “Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit”—a startup business accelerator program sited in downtown Detroit. In conjunction with the media event, Ford announced that it, Magna International Inc. Earlier post.). Power and General Motors.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

And it’s great that the auto industry is trying to figure out how to scale up their EV production. ” — Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, sustainable communities program director at GreenLatinos “Unfortunately, I’ve been watching this industry for a long time, and they don’t always keep their promises.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 4, 2008

OBAMA: Well, you know, I, I think that if we decided right now that we were going to make the kind of investment I've proposed--$150 billion over 10 years--then I think at the end of the decade we could have a auto industry that has significantly reduced our consumption of oil by as much as 35, 40 percent.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

What can the auto industry do? Particularly the parts where he blasts detroit lack of leadership and also particularly the Bush administration. From a new interview in Fortune and his new upcoming book, " Where Have all the Leaders Gone ?": Plug-in hybrids. I think they're virtually here now."

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2023

billion) from LG Power and undercover contributions from federal and provincial governments, as the biggest ever within the Canadian auto sector. A spokesperson for Champagne stated on Friday that the “auto industry is crucial to the Canadian economy and to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers.” billion ($1.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

We, as an industry, are eager to collaborate with the auto industry and others to bring PEVs to market. Earley described the pledge during a keynote panel session at the Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit. Earley, Jr., Chairman and CEO of DTE Energy and Chairman of the Edison Electric Institute.

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