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,...
by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2023 | Detroit, Unions, US Economy
Ford Motor Company announced about 400 workers in Metro Detroit have been laid off as a result of the United Auto Workers strike. The automaker says 350 workers at the Livonia Transmission Plant and 50 workers at the Sterling Axle Plant have been instructed...
by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2023 | Auto Industry, Detroit, Featured, Unions, US Economy
General Motors secured a new $6 billion line of credit as the automaker braces for additional strikes by the United Auto Workers union. “The facility that we announced today is a $6 billion line of credit that I think is prudent in light of some of the messages...
by dankeelan | Sep 13, 2023 | Aerial Vehicles, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
While the Big 3 are grabbing most of the headlines out of the North American International Auto Show, a startup company is hoping to muscle their way into the news by unveiling their vision for the future of personal transportation. Alef Aeronautics is on the floor of...
by dankeelan | Aug 31, 2023 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford expects its electric-car division to lose about $4.5 billion in 2023, yet the brand plans to continue investing in battery-powered vehicles at the expense of at least three familiar nameplates. It will soon send the Edge, the Escape and the Transit Connect to the...
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