UAW President Ray Curry said Tuesday the union’s membership fell roughly six percent to 372,254 last year, according to an annual financial report that will be made public this week. The LM-2 report, filed with the Department of Labor, compares union membership as of December 2021 to the same period a year earlier. Curry, speaking […]
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Vietnamese automaker VinFast will build an electric vehicle assembly plant and a battery manufacturing facility in Chatham County, N.C, with an initial $2 billion investment. VinFast, which opened its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles last year, intends to move rapidly into the North America EV market with the VF 8 and VF 9 crossovers currently
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Elon Musk on Tuesday likened himself to the rapper Eminem in seeking to throw out his 2018 agreement with the top U.S. securities regulator requiring the Tesla chief executive to obtain preapproval for his tweets. In a filing in federal court in Manhattan, Musk also renewed his effort to quash a U.S. Securities and Exchange
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Car theft is an all too common crime as the FBI estimates that 721,885 motor vehicles were stolen in the United States in 2019. However, a case in California is raising eyebrows as authorities recovered approximately 35 luxury vehicles that had been “fraudulently purchased from unsuspecting local dealerships.” According to the California Highway Patrol, the
A former General Motors manager was indicted with conspiracy to commit bribery after allegedly accepting $3.4 million from an international parts supplier. Hyoung Nam So, 46, who goes by Brian So, was a global purchasing and supply chain manager at GM who oversaw parts used to build interiors of North American vehicles. In October 2015,
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The Fisker Ocean electric crossover is getting 10-year/100,000-mile (whichever comes first) battery and powertrain warranties, Fisker confirmed over the weekend. The battery warranty covers up to 75% of the original battery capacity, according to Fisker’s website. For reference, Rivian offers 8-year/175,000-mile battery warranty, while Tesla’s longest warranty (for the Model S and Model X) is
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If the market has taught us anything these past couple of decades or so, it’s that there can never be enough SUV and crossovers. Despite already having a few models in its range including the compact-sized CX-30, the electric MX-30 and of course, the CX-5 (not to mention the mid-size CX-9), Mazda churned out yet
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Tesla Inc. said Monday it would ask shareholders to vote at its annual meeting to increase the number of additional shares in order to enable a stock split. The Austin, Texas-based company’s shares rose 6 percent to $1,072.08 in trading before the bell. The stock split, if approved, would be the company’s latest after a
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Buick appears to be rearranging its shields. The General Motors brand recently filed a trademark application that shows the three shields in its logo aligned horizontally instead of diagonally, and no longer overlapping. The shields also lose their diagonal stripe in favor of a curved line, and there’s no ring around the trio. (Jalopnik thinks
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The new world of immersive in-vehicle entertainment has emerged as a space for business opportunities by many in the automotive industry. It has also sparked concerns regarding the safety of all this new technology. With those worries in mind, perhaps highlighted by Tesla’s scrap with federal regulators over gaming, contributor Marcus Amick spoke with Highway
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