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...
Manufacturing
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...
Inside Hyundai’s New $5B Georgia Battery Plant — And What It Means for IONIQ Prices
Hyundai just flipped the switch on another piece of its Georgia empire, and the number...
BYD’s Hungary Factory Faces Audit After Minister Who Signed The Deal Joins The Company
Hungary’s new government has decided it wants a look at the paperwork behind BYD’s Hungarian...
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...
Hyundai Now Owns All of Boston Dynamics, and the Robots Still Can’t Build a Car
Read Hyundai’s official statement on its new, complete ownership of Boston Dynamics closely enough, and...
Toyota Just Fired Up RAV4 Hybrid Production in Kentucky. Buyers Are Already Outrunning the Assembly Line
The RAV4 is Toyota’s volume engine — the best-selling thing it makes that isn’t a...
Uncle Sam Just Handed Bosch $225 Million To Make EV Chips – In The Same Business That Just Bankrupted America’s Last Champion
Bosch says it just reached “a milestone.” That part is true. It’s just not the...
EPA’s New Truck Rule Turns a Federal Felony Into a Factory Setting
Mac Spurlock ran a diesel repair shop in Wasilla, Alaska. In 2022, about thirty armed...