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MAY 9, 2017

China-based automobile manufacturer Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC Group), the parent company of GAC Motor, has begun construction of a large industrial park for electric and intelligent vehicles as part of its efforts to boost its electric vehicle business. More than 45 billion yuan (US$6.5 More than 45 billion yuan (US$6.5

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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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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

A global survey of more than survey found that more than 120 auto tech leaders by Informa Tech Automotive Group found that 57% expect that COVID-19 will quicken the pace and rate of consolidation within the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The new 2013 Cadillac ATS compact luxury rear wheel drive sedan will be among four General Motors concept or production vehicles making world premieres at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in January. ATS enters the biggest market segment in the global luxury car industry, both in terms of volume and importance.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 16, 2019

auto industry has long been downtown Detroit. And as much as that industry has wanted to talk the talk about electrification the past several year, it hasn’t walked the walk in its home turf. Detroit almost made it to the end of the decade without a single DC fast charger. The home base for the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

In its “2012 Outlook: US Auto Manufacturers and Suppliers”, Fitch assigns the industry a Positive Rating, expecting the credit profiles of the US OEMs and auto suppliers to generally strengthen in 2012, assuming that global economic conditions do not weaken materially from current trends. Continued global.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Outfitting of a high-volume manufacturing facility to build DC Bus Capacitors for the electric drive vehicle industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

Michigan will enable four new mobility services to help address challenges across the state related to sustainable transit, roadway safety, parking and staffing shortages in the service industry. The GEKOT team is working to establish Detroit as the center of engineering excellence in micro-mobility and light electric vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The press day at the 2023 Detroit Auto Show was so quiet that I ended my day two states away – sleeping in my own bed in Chicago. It’s a far cry from my early years covering the show, when Cobo Hall (now Huntington Place) was swarmed by every industry worker from the top executives on down for several freezing cold days in January.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Trinseo, a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, introduced its 85% Long Glass Fiber (LGF) Polypropylene (PP) concentrate product family for automotive semi-structural applications at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Automotive TPO Conference in Detroit.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

At SAE World Congress in Detroit, Granta Design announced the launch of the Automotive Material Intelligence Consortium ( AutoMatIC ). This new industry collaboration will bring together OEMs and suppliers in the automotive and off-highway vehicle sectors to develop best practice for materials information and its use.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

The Detroit News. A new wind turbine assembly plant opening later this year in Novi, Michigan will create about 250 manufacturing jobs which are being sought by displaced autoworkers.The company received $7.3 million in tax credits from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority in December to create 256 direct jobs over six years.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2023

The 1969 Bronco was customized from the ground up by Los Angeles-based Zero Labs Automotive , an automotive and industrial design, technology and engineering firm specializing in electric vehicle conversions. The brand debuted its viable and reliable charging technologies at the Detroit Auto Show this past September.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2019

Phoenix provides an image 100 times more detailed than other top industry radars, according to the company, offering superior separation of stationary and moving objects in real time—an industry first. Arbe will present Phoenix at CES 2019 in Las Vegas and during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2009

The Detroit Free Press reports that the Obama Administration has asked GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign, which Wagoner agreed to do today. in 1943 from a failing Henry Ford has the federal government pushed for such sway in the management of Detroit’s automakers. GM is not commenting on the reports. No successor has been named yet.

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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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JUNE 13, 2011

The new steel, now trademarked as Flash Bainite , has tested stronger and more shock-absorbing than the most common titanium alloys used by industry. So he took my students and me to Detroit. (Martensitic steel is so named because the internal microstructure is entirely composed of a crystal form called martensite.).

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 4, 2024

The annual Detroit Concours d'Elegance is being canceled this year so Hagerty can reassess the event. It’s been a privilege to unite car lovers in the heart of the Motor City at the Detroit Concours,” the organizers explained on the event website. Detroit is a special automotive city, full of very special car lovers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2012

Initially announced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit earlier this month, Hyundai’s Lifetime Hybrid Battery Replacement Guarantee applies to all US 2012 model year Sonata Hybrids and is the first-of-its-kind in the industry.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2025 Detroit Auto Show media days were quite dead. That doesn't mean the consumer days for the show are dead -- I don't have numbers and I am typing this 200+ miles from Cobo Hall Huntington Place in Detroit, so I can't see for myself, but I suspect the show is doing just fine. Product launches take a long time, as you know.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 6, 2025

Ward's Auto is reporting that Hyundai and Renault are eyeing a return to the Russian market, assuming that Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal following the former's invasion of the latter. Volkswagen is also eyeing Russia -- the German auto industry has been flat and re-entering the Russian market could give it a boost.

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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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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 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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

Even so, current auto sales and profits remain strong. In 1985, more than two-thirds of Detroit Three unit sales were in North America. Given the major trends affecting the industry going forward, weakening the current fuel economy standards would in fact be detrimental to the future competitiveness of U.S. —Alan Baum.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2021

The Italian design firm Pininfarina will help design the Hercules Alpha electric pickup truck as well as other products, Detroit-based startup Hercules Electric Vehicles announced Tuesday in a press release.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2025

Eric Mayne was the consummate auto scribe, writing for Wards , The Detroit News , the Windsor Star then he jumped ship and became a respected PR guy at whats now known as Stellantis. Check out the episode here. Note Garsten and Mayne were colleagues at both The News and the former FCA and great, old friends.

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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. MAHLE Powertrain, an engineering service provider to the global automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The new Detroit base is the fourth international site to be opened by CATL and follows the opening of the company’s Japan subsidiary in May. The new CATL facility in Detroit will allow the company to improve the supply of lithium-ion batteries to the US auto market and to support the expansion of EV manufacturing.

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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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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

News broke earlier this week that Stellantis would pull out of auto shows, including the upcoming Chicago Auto Show, for the foreseeable future. We reached out to the Chicago Auto Show folks about that, and have not yet heard back. Having one of the Detroit Three pull out of auto shows leads to ringing of alarm bells.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Revenge team filmed a historic meeting in Detroit today — getting GM Vice President and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk together on camera for the first time. More details after the jump : Detroit’s Electric Avenue: The Street of Dreams? Mr. Paine asked Mr. Musk if he felt being in Detroit was akin to being “behind enemy lines.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Executives from Dow Kokam and SVE made the announcement at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The acquisition expands the capabilities of Dow Kokam from cell manufacture through to pack assembly and battery management systems for the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Chevrolet confirmed production of a next-generation battery-electric vehicle based on the Bolt EV concept introduced last month at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The production car will be built at General Motors’ Orion Assembly facility near Detroit. The Bolt EV concept makes its debut in Detroit.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Fields said that Ford’s investments in products, people, plants and technology, combined with industry growth, are not only delivering a year of growth in terms of revenue, pricing power, operating margins and profitability in 2014, but are setting the stage for growth in and beyond 2015. That’s a tremendous amount of growth. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Additionally, the Kona’s Electric battery is covered by Hyundai’s industry leading Lifetime Battery Warranty. The 2019 awards ceremony will take place at a banquet during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. liter), 2010 (4.6-liter) liter) and 2011 (5.0-liter); liter); and the (3.3-liter)

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