Ford's Tenn. plant could make 500K electric pickups per year
A new Ford assembly plant being built in western Tennessee will be able to build up to 500,000 electric pickup trucks per year at full production, the company said Friday.
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A new Ford assembly plant being built in western Tennessee will be able to build up to 500,000 electric pickup trucks per year at full production, the company said Friday.
General Motors, which sells the brawny muscle car, said Wednesday it will stop making the current generation early next year.
General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit on Monday asked California for permission to test the cars across the entire state.
Women are carrying a big part of the load in the tool and die department at the Ford Woodhaven Stamping Plant.
Honda is recalling a half-million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because the front seat belts may not latch properly.
It's talk about electrification and our future on "Michigan Matters" as William Shatner, star of the "Star Trek" TV show/movies, Bob Lutz, former Vice Chair of GM, ONE's CEO Mujeeb Ijaz and Dunamis Clean Energy's Natalie King appear on "Michigan Matters" 8 am this Sunday on CBS Detroit.
On March 9, 1964, the Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line for the first time, and by the first anniversary of its release, 418,812 Mustangs had been sold.
The company says the offers also are designed to avoid any possible firings at a later date.
The probe is part of a larger investigation by the agency into multiple instances of Teslas on Autopilot crashing into parked emergency vehicles that are tending to other crashes.
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) says insurers must offer auto insurance for all eligible Michigan drivers after some companies said they would temporarily halt writing new policies for certain Kia and Hyundai vehicles.
The automaker announced Friday that it plans to build more of the Mustang Mach-E, the Bronco Sport SUV and Maverick small pickup, the F-150 Lightning electric pickup and the Transit and E-Transit gas and electric full-size vans.
The current recall notice is for 2004-2006 model year trucks.
Tesla says it will use innovative manufacturing techniques and smaller factories to cut the cost of its next generation of vehicles by as much as half of the ones it now builds.
The factory, which now employs about 1,350 workers, officially was placed on "idle" by the company on Tuesday. That term means it intends to shut down the plant.
GM says it plans to save $2 billion over the next two years, and that will come from "reducing corporate expenses, overhead, and complexity in all our products."