Honda’s New Jet Just Slipped Three Years — and the Wing Isn’t Why
Honda pushed the HondaJet Echelon from a 2028 certification to a 2031 first delivery and blamed tier-one suppliers. That one…
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Hyundai and Kia Are Building Their Own Steel Mill. It Won’t Ship a Sheet Until 2029.
Hyundai and Kia don’t make steel. They buy it, like every other automaker, from mills...
Honda’s Rare-Earth-Free Magnet Bet Is Real. It’s Also the Smallest Check on the Table.
Honda did not just invest in a magnet company this month. It joined a line...
Recycled Carbon Fiber Is Growing Fast. New Carbon Fiber Is Growing Faster.
A new forecast puts recycled carbon fiber at $427 million by 2031. Virgin fiber is compounding faster, almost none of…
Nissan Says It Wants a Million Cars a Year From Japan. It Said That in 2015, Too.
Nissan’s Japanese reorganisation revives a one-million-unit target it first announced in 2015, at the same plant, on the same export…
Hansae Mobility Is Dropping $93 Million in Chesterfield. Michigan’s Measly $625,000 Grant Has Nothing to Do With It.
Hansae Mobility's $93.2 million move to Chesterfield Township isn't chasing a $625,000 state grant. It's beating an auto-parts tariff offset…
Your Engine Was Designed Around an Oil America Barely Makes. Now the Bill Is Due.
Costco is rationing motor oil and charging $5.80 a quart, but the cause is not crude prices. It is API…
The 3D-Printing Revolution in Cars Already Happened. It’s in the Tool Crib, Not on the Car.
A new large-format printer aimed at car factories has exactly the same build volume as the one before it, and…
Stellantis Is Reportedly Spending €1 Billion in France to Do Work Its Suppliers Already Do
The headline is a new van at Hordain. The detail worth reading is that part of the money reportedly brings…
Four LLCs, One Factory: Inside an Auto Supplier’s $620,000 Discrimination Settlement
A federal jury in Nashville never got to hear this case, and that absence is...
A Chinese Supplier Just Opened a Georgia Factory to Build the Exact Tech Washington Is Trying to Ban
A ribbon-cutting in Suwanee, Georgia doesn’t usually make national news. But the one held by...
Honda’s $9.4 Billion Plan To Fight Cheap Chinese EVs Involves Buying More Parts From China
Honda wants to save $9.4 billion by 2030, and it told suppliers this spring to...
This ‘Trading Floor’ For New Cars Just Went Bankrupt. Federal Records Show It Wasn’t Even Legally Cleared To Move Its Own Inventory
Somewhere between the factory and your local dealership’s lot, thousands of brand-new cars change hands...
Nissan Says Business Is Growing — Its Own Spreadsheet Says Sales Just Crashed 16.5%
Nissan put out a press release this week with a headline built for good news:...
Tesla’s New ‘Chip Facility’ in Austin Is Bigger Than the Pentagon — Texas Says It Cost Just $50,000
Somewhere east of Austin, Tesla has filed paperwork for a semiconductor building with more floor...