DETROIT—Sales of lithium ion batteries are expected to grow from $1.6 billion in 2012 to $22 billion by 2020, according to a report from Pike Research.
WASHINGTON—Some 16.2 million vehicles were recalled last year, a 4.5 percent increase compared with 2011, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
DETROIT—General Motors is planning to invest approximately $1.6 billion in its North American manufacturing facilities during 2013, in a bid to unveil about 20 new models during the year.
DETROIT—Actor Danny Glover has joined supporters of unionization for workers at Nissan’s assembly plant in Mississippi demonstrating outside the North American International Auto Show.
CANTON, MS—Nissan will begin producing the Murano at its assembly plant here by 2014. The automaker has set a goal of manufacturing 85 percent of the vehicles it sells in the United States in North America.
BLUE SPRINGS, MS—Masafumi Hamaguchi, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, loves running, professional wrestling and helping assemblers produce the highest quality vehicles possible.