There’s been a Mercedes Benz factory outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama for almost 30 years, and, for the company, it’s been a pretty big deal. The plant employs around 6100 people. The Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa was founded in 1995 and was the first major Mercedes-Benz plant outside Germany. Around two-thirds of the annual production is […]
There aren’t many areas where I agree with the Biden administration but the CHIPS Act is one that I genuinely hope will work. The ACT passed both the House and Senate with bipartisan support and was signed into law in 2022. The idea was to award grants to chipmakers willing to build new facilities here […]
Ford CEO Jim Farley always thought that his company and the United Auto Workers UAW) rubbed along pretty well together. That is until this past summer and fall when the UAW’s pugnacious new president Shawn Fain – after scoring a massive contract victory at UPS – turned his sights on Detroit’s D-3 (Ford, Stellantis, General […]
Those darn Chinese, they spoil everything. Particularly when you’re an industry that need subsidies to survive because you haven’t been able to stand alone yet, even after decades of government largesse greasing your skids. Just when you think you’ve finally got it made, climate cultists have taken over running the country, and are bankrupting everyone […]
You kinda sorta had an idea this news was coming, considering the signals Ford sent out just prior to the holidays. All was not well on their Lightning F-150 E truck line. …You can see it pretty clearly in a chart of the sales. Ford has 30% of all the Lightnings they ever made still […]
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