Volkswagen Cut a Shift on the Line That Builds Its Best-Selling U.S. Model. Puebla’s Strike Deadline Is Friday.
Volkswagen cut a shift on the Puebla line that builds its best-selling U.S. model. Workers rejected a 10.04% offer tied…
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Stellantis Lined Up an Armored-Vehicle Builder for Brampton. Now It Needs the Union to Sign.
Stellantis has an armoured-vehicle maker lined up for its idle Brampton plant. The harder sell is Unifor, and the reason…
Honda Spent $1 Billion So One Ohio Line Could Build Anything. It Still Ran Out of Room.
Honda spent more than $1 billion so its Ohio lines could build gas, hybrid and electric cars interchangeably. A reported…
Britain’s Steering Wheels Are on the Right. That May Be Its Smartest Battery Policy.
Britain is reviewing its EV sales mandate just as a £7 billion battery industry, a locked-in EU trade deadline and…
This 130-Year-Old German Supplier Made Parts Every EV Still Needs. It Filed for Insolvency Anyway.
Prinz-Mayweg made seat, dashboard and steering tubes that electric cars still need. Its insolvency shows what is really squeezing German…
America Already Banned Chinese Cars. The Senate Is Fighting Over Who Gets to Unban Them.
Commerce banned Chinese connected-vehicle software and hardware in 2025. The Senate bill everyone calls a ban is really a fight…
JLR’s Suppliers Want Out of Cars and Into Aerospace. The Hard Part Isn’t the Metal.
JLR's Midlands suppliers want help moving into aerospace and defence. Their letter is really a forecast about UK car volume,…
McLaren’s £500 Million Plan Isn’t Really About the SUV. It’s About Finally Building Its Own Engines.
For 15 years, an outside firm built McLaren's engines. The supercar maker's £500 million UK expansion brings that work in-house,…
BYD Already Has an American Factory. Washington Wrote a Law Around It.
BYD has built buses in California for over a decade. Congress still wrote it out of federal transit money. That…
The Plant That Built Every Modern Dodge Challenger May Soon Build Armored Trucks. Canada Already Paid $222 Million Expecting Jeeps.
Stellantis signed an MOU to sell its idled Brampton Assembly Plant, where the Challenger, Charger and 300 were built, to…
Hyundai’s $5.8B Mississippi River Mill Is a Tariff Hedge Wrapped in Direct-Reduced Iron
Carmakers usually treat steel the way most of us treat tap water. It shows up,...
Today in Automotive History: September 25, 1926 — Henry Ford Announces the Five-Day, 40-Hour Workweek
Henry Ford announced the Ford five-day workweek on Sept. 25, 1926. The weekend it helped create still shapes how cars…
Mercedes-Benz Ties the Future of Two German Factories to Longer Hours Without Extra Pay
Mercedes-Benz has finally said the quiet part out loud. At a works meeting at its...
Tesla’s Optimus Robot Factory Depends on Car-Parts Suppliers, and the Math Is Brutal
Word coming out of China’s supply chain this week is that Tesla’s humanoid robot team...
Ford Has Paid Nearly $18 Million Over Harassment at Its Chicago Plants. The Lawsuits Are Back.
Ford settled harassment claims at its Chicago Assembly and Stamping plants with the EEOC in 1999 and 2017. In 2026,…