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Amid cutbacks, tariffs are adding to GM's financial woes

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 27, 2018
GM announced plant closures in North America and thousands of layoffs, tariffs are also weighing down the car company.
A worker wears a t-shirt during a information session at Local 222 in Oshawa, Ontario, on November 26, 2018.
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Divided Decade

What did America buy with the auto bailout, and was it worth it?

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 13, 2018
About $80 billion helped save GM and Chrysler, but autoworkers and auto-dependent communities haven't fully recovered.
From left, G. Richard Wagoner Jr., CEO of General Motors; Robert Nardelli, CEO of Chrysler; and Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford, testify at a hearing on the U.S. auto industry on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2008. GM and Chrysler were bailed out with TARP funds; Ford received other federal assistance.
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Divided Decade

How auto industry towns are faring a decade after the bailout

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 13, 2018
We take a look at four cities whose fates are linked to Chrysler and GM.
 Workers build a Jeep Compass at the Fiat Chrysler assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, in 2012.
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What Honda's investment in GM means for self-driving cars

by Justin Ho
Oct 3, 2018
Autonomous cars made more interesting in a deal that's more Silicon Valley than Detroit.
The logo of U.S. carmaker General Motors, or GM, is visible on the front grille of a GM Hydrogen 4 fuel cell-powered car at a presentation by Opel and GM on November 26, 2008 in Berlin, Germany
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Tesla faces turmoil at the top ... and stiff competition

by Molly Wood
Oct 1, 2018
The company made electric cars exciting, but can it make them ubiquitous?
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at the 2015 Automotive News World Congress in Detroit.
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Ralph Nader wants you to wear a seat belt

by David Brancaccio and Ali Oshinskie
Sep 28, 2018
...because he fought the auto industry for increased safety. And won.
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What Japan and the U.S. hope to get from holding bilateral trade talks

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 27, 2018
Japan has agreed to start talking to the United States about trade on a bilateral basis. That’s the word from both countries after Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with President Donald Trump at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday. Japan, up until this point, has favored pursuing multilateral trade deals including the […]
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Mexican auto makers hopeful, with movement on U.S. trade agreement

by Jorge Valencia
Sep 27, 2018
But there are still obstacles ahead.
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U.S.-imposed tariffs are hitting American firms’ bottom line

by Renata Sago
Sep 27, 2018
The CEO of one of the nation’s largest automakers says metal tariffs imposed by the Trump administration earlier this year have cost his company $1 billion in profits and sales. Ford boss Jim Hackett made the comment at a gathering of business leaders in New York on Wednesday. The administration imposed the steel and aluminum […]
Jim Hackett, president and chief executive officer, Ford Motor stands outside the headquarters as they celebrate the production of the 10,000,000 Mustang on August 8, 2018 in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Android-powered infotainment coming to cars from Nissan, Renault, Mistsubishi

by Kimberly Adams
Sep 19, 2018
There was some big news this week in the auto and tech industries, which are increasingly overlapping. The world’s largest automotive partnership, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which sold more than 10 million cars around the world last year, is going to start embedding Google’s Android operating system in its cars starting in 2021.  The promise for […]
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