Sep 4, 2025 | Auto Industry, Robots, Training, Work
General Motors Co. worker Annie Ignaczak spent years walking in circles on concrete factory floors, assembling the same parts and counting down hundreds of pieces she and her coworkers needed to finish before lunch. “You’re doing the same movement...
Sep 4, 2025 | Auto Industry, Featured, Japan, Jobs, Michigan
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced a $95 million investment from automotive supplier Astemo Ltd. to establish a new regional headquarters in Wixom, Michigan. The company will construct a new facility to accommodate the physical space needed to showcase its...
Sep 3, 2025 | Auto Industry, Europe, Featured, Tariffs
Germany’s once unshakable automotive industry is starting to show visible cracks, with new figures highlighting just how much pressure the sector is under. In the past year alone, the workforce has shrunk by 7 percent, while profits slide and overcapacity weighs...
Aug 28, 2025 | Auto Industry, Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured
Stellantis has put its Level 3 ADAS — the in-house STLA AutoDrive — on hold, citing high costs, technological hurdles and limited consumer demand as key factors behind the pivot. The automaker confirmed the system, long touted as “ready for deployment,” was never...
Aug 7, 2025 | Auto Industry, Hydrogen
The world’s very first internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle wasn’t powered by gasoline but rather by hydrogen. Way back in 1807, Francois Isaac de Rivaz used a hydrogen-filled ballon to drive an engine he developed to propel an experimental vehicle—more than 50...
Aug 7, 2025 | Auto Industry, Featured, Tariffs
President Trump’s tariff war has inflicted almost $12 billion of losses on global automakers, the biggest hit they have faced since the pandemic. The scary reality: This may be just the beginning. Beyond the continuing cost of tariffs, automakers in the U.S., Japan,...
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