Vehicle Tech
Automotive outlook webinar, April 7, 2021
2021 Boom or Bust: The changing landscape of the automotive industry
Category: Cars/Light trucks
Manufacturing
Toyota Kentucky plant builds 13 millionth vehicle
Blue hybrid RAV4 SUV is the milestone vehicle at the plant that opened in 1988.
Manufacturing
General Motors developing solid-state batteries
Test units to be available by 2023 and automaker seeks to eliminate liquid electrolytes, improve energy density, extend electric vehicle range.
Manufacturing
Mullen Technologies buys defunct GreenTech Automotive plant in Mississippi
Closed in 2017 by a company that went bankrupt a year later, 100 acre campus to employ more than 50 by the end of the year.
Manufacturing
Honda names former R&D chief next CEO
Toshihiro Mibe to replace Takahiro Machigo who plans to retire in June
Vehicle Tech
Ford sets all-electric plans for Europe
Commercial vehicles, passenger cars to be all-electric or plug-in hybrid by 2030.
Manufacturing
GM earns $6.4 billion in 2020, down slightly from 2019 despite massive COVID-19 changes
Taking market share from Ford in pickups was key to boosting profitability and funding electric/autonomous vehicle plans.
Supply Chain
Ford, Honda support STEM programs
Automakers donating cash and computers to organizations that promote science and technology for future workers.
Manufacturing
GM expanding 10-speed transmission capacity in Toledo
$75 million investment supports higher pickup production with work beginning immediately.
Manufacturing
Ford to double EV/AV spending to $29 billion by 2025, loses $1.3 billion in 2020
Losses overseas erase gains in Ford Credit, Ford North America.
Manufacturing
General Motors hopes to stop making gasoline-burning cars by 2035
“Aspiration” plan developed with environmental groups could have the automaker carbon neutral within 20 years.
Manufacturing
Stellantis pleads guilty in UAW bribery case, to pay $30 million
Long-running federal probe of autoworkers union won 15 convictions.