Japan’s Earthquake Barely Touched Honda’s Closest Factory. A Plant 600 Miles Away Still Can’t Build A Civic
Honda’s factory in Ozu, Kumamoto, sits close enough to the epicenter of Japan’s July 28...
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Ford Just Blew Up the Assembly Line It Invented. The Target Is a Used Tesla.
Ford wants you looking at a $30,000 electric truck due in 2027. Look instead at...
Mercedes’ Next EVs Are Being Built From Scrapped Cars. The Real Reason Has Nothing To Do With Saving The Planet
Somewhere in Norway, an aluminum smelter running mostly on hydroelectric power is melting down old...
BYD’s Humanoid Robot Debuts in August, and the Robot Isn’t the Part That Should Worry Everyone Else
BYD has run this play twice before. In 1995, it started as a battery maker,...
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...
Tesla Says a Supplier Held Its Cybertruck Tooling for Ransom. Owning the Dies Was Never the Same as Controlling Them.
This Cybertruck tooling lawsuit started on July 21st, when a team of Tesla employees drove...
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...
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...
The US Banned Chinese Connected-Car Tech. The Company Racing to Replace It Started With a Chinese License
Forget the model years for a second. The number that actually matters in America’s ban...
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...
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...
O’Reilly’s Reported $10 Billion Bid for NAPA’s Parent Isn’t Really a Merger Story. It’s a Vote of No Confidence in GPC’s Own Spinoff Plan
Genuine Parts Company spent the better part of this year building an elaborate exit ramp...
Rolls-Royce Just Expanded a Factory in Minnesota. It’s Not the Rolls-Royce You’re Picturing, and the Mix-Up Is the Real Story.
Skim the headline and you’ll picture Goodwood: a clean room in the English countryside where...
China’s EV Industry Just Culled 27 of Its Own Brands. The 3 Survivors Are Coming for Your Dealership.
Everyone is reading China’s EV market numbers as a story about slowing demand. It isn’t....