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Why the Automotive Industry Is Betting Big on a Radically Uncertain Future - Wall Street Journal (subscription)

Why the Automotive Industry Is Betting Big on a Radically Uncertain Future
Wall Street Journal (subscription)
Electric cars could account for 4% of global car sales in 2025 (source: BP, IHS). Or should that be 25% (UBS, Roland Berger)?. How are executives, let alone investors, supposed to place their bets with this kind of uncertainty? London-listed chemical ...

Canada's auto industry anxiously await US NAFTA proposal on content rules - Globalnews.ca

Globalnews.ca

Canada's auto industry anxiously await US NAFTA proposal on content rules
Globalnews.ca
OTTAWA – The Canadian automotive industry is anxiously waiting to see if the next round of NAFTA negotiations will provide some clarity on American demands that vehicles must have “substantial” U.S. content to qualify for duty-free movement within ...
US to demand higher American auto content in NAFTA talks, Ross warnsThe Globe and Mail
Canada awaits U.S. NAFTA proposal on auto content rules - Article ...BNN
US Commerce study argues for tougher NAFTA origin rulesReuters
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Inside Tesla -- And What's Really Disrupting The Automotive Industry - Forbes

Forbes

Inside Tesla -- And What's Really Disrupting The Automotive Industry
Forbes
Some companies are moving quickly and innovating within the automotive industry, but others are stuck in the past. In March, for instance, I criticized GM for spending $17 billion on wasteful stock buybacks and, in my opinion, not pivoting quickly ...

Trump's people are back to giving really disconcerting interviews about the auto industry - Business Insider

Business Insider

Trump's people are back to giving really disconcerting interviews about the auto industry
Business Insider
The relative silence has been broken, and President Donald Trump's surrogates are back to saying really disturbing things about the economy. This time, about the auto industry. On Friday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made the media rounds presenting ...

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Baby boomers, not millennials, most influence the auto industry ... - Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

Baby boomers, not millennials, most influence the auto industry ...
Chicago Tribune
Baby boomers defined freedom and personal style when it came to the automobile, and are still shaping what's popular in automotive style and technology.

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Slovakia's worker shortage threatens growth of auto industry - Financial Times

Financial Times

Slovakia's worker shortage threatens growth of auto industry
Financial Times
For many years, Porsche's Cayenne SUV was all but completed at Volkswagen's sprawling car plant outside Bratislava, before being sent almost 370 miles to Leipzig for the final touches — including a “Made in Germany” stamp — to be added. That will ...

The Auto Industry Is a Major Obstacle to Trump's NAFTA Deal - Fortune

Fortune

The Auto Industry Is a Major Obstacle to Trump's NAFTA Deal
Fortune
MEXICO CITY—NAFTA negotiators discussed rules of origin on Monday as the Trump administration's expected demand for U.S.-specific automotive content requirements was emerging as a major obstacle to a deal, auto industry lobbyists said. U.S. Trade ...

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With Help from Volkswagen, 3D Printing Digs Deeper Into the Auto Industry - Machine Design

Machine Design

With Help from Volkswagen, 3D Printing Digs Deeper Into the Auto Industry
Machine Design
3D printing is helping the aerospace industry miniaturize and create lightweight parts. It also helps save time with fixtures and jigs in the automotive industry. However, none of these applications are designed for safety. You wouldn't expect someone ...

Europe's auto industry greenwashing diesel in attempt to save its dying technology - Bellona

Bellona

Europe's auto industry greenwashing diesel in attempt to save its dying technology
Bellona
Roughly two years after the Dieselgate scandal, which exposed a systematic industry-wide emissions cheating by the automotive industry, the newly published report by NGO T&E reveals an even darker side to Europe's most beloved diesel cars, namely their ...

Spotlight: New energy, intelligence trend of automotive industry ... - Xinhua

Spotlight: New energy, intelligence trend of automotive industry ...
Xinhua
BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- With many new models of electric cars making debut at Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) 2017, the new trend of automotive industry ...

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