WILMINGTON, DE-Vice President Joe Biden plans to visit a closed General Motors plant here on Tuesday. The California-based venture capital firm Fisker Automotive Inc. has reached a deal to buy the plant and plans to use it to assemble plug-in hybrid electric cars. MORE
SEATTLE-As Boeing debates whether to locate a second 787 assembly line in Everett, WA, or North Charleston, SC, company officials are negotiating with the Machinists union on a new contract with a no-strike clause. The company wants a no-strike clause for 10 years, possibly more, effectively precluding any strike until 2019 at the earliest. MORE
WINSTON-SALEM, NC-Dell Inc., which plans to close its assembly plant here, confirmed in writing to the city Thursday that it will pay back $26.5 million in local incentives used to lure the company to Forsyth County. MORE
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
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