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Is China making U.S. irrelevant to the future of automobiles?

Green Car Reports

The first automobile was invented in Germany in 1885 by Karl Benz, but it was the U.S. that led the building of the global 20th-century automobile industry. new-vehicle market was the world's largest, and General Motors was for decades the world's largest car company. Neither of those is still the.

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Study of Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing Finds Mixed Performance for Most OEMs, BMW and Toyota as the Clear Leaders

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The ratio of sustainable value to sales (sustainable value margin) is calculated in the report so that different companies can be directly compared irrespective of their size. Findings of the report include: Toyota and the BMW Group are industry leaders. Daihatsu, on the other hand, generally fell just within the negative zone.

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Thomson Reuters analysis finds automotive new propulsion technology patent activities surge 6-fold in 5 years

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The report found that Toyota is the auto world’s top innovator from a patent perspective, with more than 7,000 patent assignments to the company during the period covered, The company is one of five Japanese carmakers (the others being Honda, Denso, Seiko Epson, Mitsubishi) in the top ten, the most of any country.

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UAW President: Tesla workers are union “members of the future”

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The executive noted that if Ford loses its competitive nature against rivals, many jobs will be lost. “It’s the absolute lifeblood of our company. I still believe the automobile industry is a major force for good in our country. And if we lose it, we will lose to the competition. America loses.

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Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford Asks UAW to End Strike

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Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford has asked union members to come together and end the UAW strike before it hampers the business’ ability to invest in future products and facilities. It’s the absolute lifeblood of our company. I still believe the automobile industry is a major force for good in our country.

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GM and Stellantis Back Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnet

Cars That Think

For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all? For iron nitride, the authors gave a κ value of 0.53.

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Former Tesla exec confirms WSJ report on Biden admin’s anti-Tesla bias

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But while Tesla produced about two-thirds of EVs on US roads then, the company’s workforce was also not unionized. Thus, despite Tesla’s efforts to reach out to the Biden administration in an effort to connect Musk to the US President, the company reportedly received the cold shoulder.

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