Automaker investment in battery and Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturing in North America is on the rise. For nearly two decades, the CAR Automotive Communities Partnership (ACP) has tracked announced ...

Source: The 2021 EPA Automotive Trends Report As shown in Figure 2, OEMs throughout the industry steadily generated compliance credits until the industry’s carbon credit bank peaked in 2015. In 2016 ...

Automotive supply chains have garnered a lot of attention of late. Beginning in early 2020, disruptions resulting from the global COVID-19 pandemic thrust them into the spotlight. More recently, ...

Many estimates of the cost of the UAW strike focus on how much the work stoppage is costing GM, but few have estimated the broader costs of the strike to the U.S. economy or individual states. The ...

Mexican automotive production has been a topic of recent debate. Since 2009, automakers—including BMW, Honda, Hyundai-Kia, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, and VW/Audi—have announced eight new assembly plants ...

External Resources: Monday, February 7, 2022 Ford suspends some production because of chip shortage Volkswagen does not see chip shortage ending this year Friday, February 4, 2022 Automakers, chip ...

Powertrain Families OEMs historically have built powertrain business cases over at least a ten-year time horizon, straddling two or more vehicle programs. This time horizon is driven by the need to ...

This is a summary of announced autonomous driving deployments, as they may or may-not have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Scheduled targets were specified by official company announcements, ...

On Friday, April 1, 2022, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg unveiled new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards for 2024-2026 model year passenger cars and light-duty trucks. These new ...

The automotive industry is changing at an unprecedented rate. Vehicle technologies including automated driver assist systems (ADAS), connected and automated vehicles (CAV), and advanced powertrains ...

While simple in concept, the question of whether a given vehicle is a domestic product, or just how American a car is, turns out to be very difficult to answer. Is a vehicle domestic or American if: ...

Much of the trade news focuses on U.S. policies related to Section 232 national security and Section 301 intellectual property import tariffs and ongoing trade agreement negotiations with China, Japan ...