DETROIT - The Biden administration on Thursday announced more than $1 billion in grants to help retool or reopen 11 auto plants — including more than $650 million for two factories in Michigan — as they transition toward making electric vehicles. The list of plants in Michigan includes General Motors' Lansing Grand River Assembly, which
TROY–Today’s mass market electric vehicles average 181 problems per 100 vehicles, according to the 2024 initial quality study of new vehicles from the Troy customer experience firm J.D. Power. Meanwhile, EV premium brands—often including more complicated systems and thus more reliance on connectivity—average 232 problems per 100. A lower score reflects higher vehicle quality. Both
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University has consolidated its research and economic development activities into a new division. The university's sponsored research effort has grown from less than $1 million a year a decade ago to nearly $10 million a year today, with research funding coming from both industry and government agencies like the National Science
DETROIT - Long-time auto expert Paul Eisenstein returns to MITechTV to provide the latest Detroit auto updates. Those include auto makers rethinking EV schedules, and also how to deal with the huge cost and labor savings held by Tesla and China's BYD, the world's lowest cost Electric Vehicle makers. Stellantis, the former Chrysler, looking at
PARIS - Oil demand has been on a rollercoaster ride over the last five years due to a global pandemic, wars, and other economic pressures. That’s happened against a backdrop of the U.S. ramping up shale production, countries tightly controlling how much oil is released, and the world transitioning to alternative energy sources. All these factors will culminate
SOUTHFIELD - The Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University announced an additional grant of $2 million from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation to strengthen its mission of supporting startups and small businesses in Southeast Michigan with their hardware and physical product innovations. This new funding will further strengthen Centrepolis’s Evergreen Service-Based Investment Fund, which
DETROIT - Vince Burlapp (aka vburlapp on social media or burlappcar.com) is a prolific virtual artist who loves to dream of all the latest models across the wide-ranging automotive realm – especially from Cadillac. This pixel master has a veritable passion for the American luxury brand. Truth be told, we understand why. After all, the
NEW YORK - Back in February, used electric vehicle prices dipped below used gasoline-powered vehicle prices for the first time ever, and the pricing cliff keeps getting steeper as car buyers reject any “premium” tag formerly associated with EVs. The decline has been dramatic over the past year. In June 2023, average used EV prices were
LONDON, UK - American brands saw their share drop from 53% to 51% in the Expert Reviews top 25 best-selling vehicle models list, with 290,000 fewer American cars sold in 2023 compared to 2022. While Japan's share has risen from 44% in 2022 to 48% in 2023, selling 100,000 more cars compared to the prior
TROY – Expleo has announced the official opening of its new U.S. digital engineering center in Troy, Michigan. The office was inaugurated on June 6 in an opening ceremony attended by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Expleo CEO Rajesh Krishnamurthy, EVP Automotive Marcus Ganguin, city of Troy and Oakland County officials, and local business leaders from the automotive industry.
