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...Anxieties over electric vehicle manufacturing — which requires fewer workers than making internal combustion cars — have featured prominently in contract talks with the United Auto Workers union, which went...
...The United Auto Workers, the influential US union, is targeting Tesla as it aims to widen its base beyond the traditional Detroit carmakers of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler following its historic pay...
...from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis in a six-week strike....
...Tesla, General Motors and Rivian all reported strong US sales and deliveries for EVs during the second quarter, as did BYD in China....
...Car insurance has soared 17.1 per cent....
...New York City is suing Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia for negligence and creating a public nuisance over complaints about a “virtual explosion” of stolen cars blamed on a lack of anti-theft devices....
...“I would think that in the United States, given the legal environment here, you are going to see Tesla stand as aggressively as it possibly can,” said Marick Masters, a labour relations professor at Michigan...
...The storefront is a 10-minute walk from Lucid Motors’ showroom in the same trendy hamlet. In London, Chinese EV maker BYD is scheduled to open a showroom this month in Mayfair....
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...The test scheme was launched by Cruise, an autonomous vehicle business that is majority owned by General Motors. Like Uber, it has an app that you can use to call a car to meet you....
...“You get the ability to socialise the car across the whole United States.” EVs still account for only 2 per cent of car sales in the US....
...He had been mulling a company making small cars with electric motors, figuring smaller cars, smaller carbon footprint. But after that summer, he abandoned the idea....
...Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX chief executive, spoke to Peter Campbell, global motor industry correspondent, at FT Live’s Future of the Car conference in London on Tuesday May 10....
...The electrical systems that control the motors and other equipment under the floors were damaged....
...The change goes beyond the motor industry. Cisco said it had put money in escrow to reserve capacity with an unidentified contract chipmaker....
...Honda Motor will reduce vehicle production while Volkswagen will produce 100,000 fewer cars in the first quarter due to supply shortages. Purchasing habits are changing too....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 5 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...time the US government pumped billions of dollars into an industry to deal with an economic crisis, it effectively took over two of the nation’s largest carmakers, securing large equity stakes in General Motors...
...The orders are a further boost to the group, which has been a bright spot in a UK car industry struggling with falling output amid lower sales because of trading uncertainty following Brexit....
...The documents, filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles in California, which grants permits for autonomous testing in the state, also reveal patchy disclosure about training programmes — prompting calls...
...The consultancy predicts revenues across Europe’s Big Five leagues will drop by €1.5bn this season, but make a V-shaped recovery next season....
...That ended when the FIA, the world governing body for motor racing, voted to ban sponsorship from cigarette makers in 2006....
...The technology runs on augmented reality headsets and is already being used by the Ford Motor Company....
...Dubbed “NUMMI” — New United Motor Manufacturing Inc — the joint venture achieved defect rates and quality ratings unheard of at GM’s other plants....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on September 27, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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