Brazil Is Buying Chinese Cars By the Billions. The Real Fight Is Over Screwdrivers
Everyone is reporting that Brazil just became the world’s largest importer of Chinese-made vehicles, spending...
Manufacturing
Audi Already Closed One EV Plant. The One It Might Close Next Builds an EV, Too.
Audi already knows what happens to a plant that builds an electric car nobody buys...
Trump’s Michigan Tariff Victory Lap Starred a Factory Built to Bury GM’s EV Trucks
When a president stands on a General Motors proving ground and announces that tariffs are...
Toyota And Nissan’s Kyushu Plants Just Got Hit By A Killer Earthquake — Again
Toyota builds its most profitable SUVs in a corner of Japan that keeps shaking itself...
Trump’s ‘More Than Your Parents’ Line Was The Least Interesting Thing Said At GM This Week
President Trump stood at GM’s Milford Proving Ground on July 27 and told a crowd...
GM Built 250,000 EVs That Could Power the Grid. The Hard Part Was Never the Technology
Somewhere in Michigan and Northern California, a handful of GM electric vehicles are already sending...
Ford’s Empty Spanish Factory Found a Savior: The Chinese Company It Sold Volvo To in 2010
Ford and Geely just announced they’re going to build cars together in Valencia, Spain, starting...
GM Just Spent $430 Million Upgrading Two Factories, and Electric Cars Weren’t Invited
General Motors put out a press release this week about paint booths, assembly lines, and...
Ford Gave This Windshield Plant a Crisis-Management Award. Weeks Later, It Had One of Its Own.
In June, Ford handed a Tennessee glass plant a trophy for handling crises well. In...
Cadillac’s All-Electric Future Is Dead. Long Live the XT6 Nobody Asked to See Again.
Mary Barra didn’t announce new Cadillacs on GM’s second-quarter earnings call this week. She announced...
Powder Coatings Just Became a $3.6 Billion Industry. Your Car’s Paint Job Still Wasn’t Invited
A market research firm sent out a press release this week forecasting that the global...
Nissan Blames Crossovers For Killing The Altima. A Collapsed Honda Merger Is The Real Reason
Nissan wants you to believe the Altima is dying because America fell out of love...
Tesla and Hyundai Are Building Robot Armies. Building Cars Might Just Be Their Old Job
Tesla just broke ground on a new factory in Austin. When the machines inside it...
Hyundai Just Turned On a Georgia Battery Plant. The One Down the Coast Is Still Recovering From an ICE Raid
Bartow County, Georgia doesn’t get much attention, and for a few weeks this summer that...
Hyundai, Kia, and GM Korea Are Barreling Toward a Strike Over Jobs the Robots Haven’t Even Taken Yet
Every summer, Hyundai and Kia’s unions sit down with management, argue about bonuses, and usually...