DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Co. is moving production
of a small sport-utility-vehicle from Europe to the United States to take advantage
of lower labor costs and the weaker dollar. MORE
RICHARDSON, TX-Solar array
manufacture Skyline Solar has made a deal with auto-parts manufacturer Cosmo
International to build its frames, racks and reflectors. MORE
CHICAGO-Boeing will reportedly decide within the next two weeks
whether to put its second 787 Dreamliner assembly line in Everett, WA, or
Charleston, SC. MORE
WASHINGTON-Fisker Automotive, a California startup manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, plans to announce shortly the location of a U.S. assembly plant where it will build plug-in electric vehicles. Henrik Fisker, the company's co-founder and chief executive, declined to elaborate on the site of the plant, but ruled out the Fremont, CA, location of New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., where Toyota plans to halt production in March 2010. MORE
TORONTO-A U.S.-based aircraft manufacturer is eyeing two sites in Canada for a new assembly plant that would create as many as 250 jobs over the next five years. The Dornier Seaplane Co. announced Monday that North Bay, Ontario, and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, are candidates to host a new assembly plant for the company’s Seastar aircraft, the world’s first all-composite seaplane. MORE
DETROIT-Batteries for electric vehicles will
produced in large volumes and at competitive prices as early as 2015, according
to a panel of industry analysts. MORE
SAN ANTONIO-Toyota Motor will add a second production shift at its pick-up truck assembly plant here by February next year, as inventories with the dealers have dried up. The addition of the shift will require 850 more workers at the plant. MORE
SYRACUSE, NY-A company that wants Central New York workers to build a new generation of electric cars for North America has struck a crucial agreement with the Reva Electric Car Co. of India, removing one of the last hurdles to a deal for a new local assembly plant. Bannon Automotive, of Long Island, has secured an exclusive North American licensing deal with the company. MORE
DEARBORN, MI-Ford
Motor Co. has promised the United Auto Workers its plants in Chicago, Kentucky and
Wayne, MI, will receive a flurry of new vehicle and transmission assembly work
in the next few years. MORE
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