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We knew that Donald Trump is somehow pressing U.S. automakers to build new factories and offer more jobs, but he may have to settle for plant overhauls and incremental job expansions such as Ford Motor Co.’s planned $1.2 billion investment in three Michigan factories that’s expected to create at least 100 jobs. Trump pushed automakers during a roundtable in Ypsilanti Township earlier this month for more U.S. plants, and in a speech to autoworkers the same day he said plants are coming back — other plants that were expected to be built in other countries are not being bui...
For the first time modern plug-in electric cars became available in U.S. in December 2010, the times when Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt's first generation became available on the car market. After a short time president Barack Obama set the goal of putting 1 million plug-in cars on U.S. roads by 2015. This goal wasn't reached. In fact, U.S. electric-car sales have only just gotten halfway there. Combined U.S. sales of battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids surpassed 500,000 units as of September, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Specifically, sales since ...
A five year peak on car sales was reached last year. Even the sales of Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger had to suffer a 8.4% decline. You might start to worry about US's auto market, but that's not really the case since the drop matches more for small cars and not crossovers and SUVs, since they keep on growing. But what does the cool-down for muscle-cars in America mean? Is there any deep meaning in this decrease? Well, customers who buy Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers do that because their interested in some modern evocations of the early 60's ...
It's been revealed, that General Motors has payed money to its dealers for 7 years already. All these years more than $5 billion were offered to GM dealerships, under the EBE program. But now, that most of them have done some shiny makeovers, there's no need to make some extra, right? GM has decided to keep that spigot open for any of its Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC dealers who jump though the necessary hoops under the brand standards program called Essential Brand Elements. The cash will be an incentive for dealers to keep those stores modern with new video displays...
Company mergers in the modern automotive industry has become a common practice. More and more specialists declare that the auto industry should consolidate further to cope with rising development costs. As thus, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Chairman John Elkann renewed a push to merge the company with one of the auto industry’s “big guys”, saying savings could top $10 billion a year.Even with developments like car sharing and self-driving vehicles, Fiat Chrysler’s major competitors should consider the potential benefits of a merger because the bulk of their ...
