by dankeelan | Nov 15, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Uncategorized
Cruise, General Motors’ embattled driverless car unit, said Tuesday it will pause all public road operations — both supervised and manual — in an expansion of last month’s pause of driverless operations. “This orderly pause is a further step to...
by dankeelan | Nov 9, 2023 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
But when the number of electric vehicles sold in the United States grew that much during the third quarter from a year earlier, it was a disappointment. Carmakers and analysts had expected more. Instead of celebrating, auto executives worried that demand for electric...
by dankeelan | Nov 2, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit
The General Motors-owned driverless vehicle startup, Cruise, stopped its operations across all of its fleets on Thursday after numerous issues with collisions and growing regulations. Cruise announced the decision in a statement on social media, saying it would...
by dankeelan | Nov 2, 2023 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
The tentative deals that brought an end to the 6-week strike by the United Auto Workers could bring collective bargaining power to workers at new electric battery plants jointly owned by the automakers. But the deals could also make electric vehicles even...
by dankeelan | Oct 26, 2023 | Auto Industry, Detroit, Featured, Unions
After more than six weeks of walkouts, picketing, and fractured negotiations, the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Ford Motor Company have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract. The deal, announced yesterday (Oct. 25) includes a roughly 25% pay...
by dankeelan | Oct 26, 2023 | Auto Industry, Detroit, Drones, Featured
Detroit’s Michigan Central Station, the once beautiful but now abandoned train station that Ford is rehabilitating into an innovation and technology hub, is about to be swarmed by drones. The Ford subsidiary that operates the train station, Michigan Central,...
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