WINDSOR, ON—Police have confirmed that they believe the explosion at Stellantis’s assembly plant here on Nov. 4 was “a deliberate act.”

LANSING, MI—General Motors will shut down its Delta Township plant for 11 weeks over the course of 2022 to get ready to build a new vehicle, the GMC Acadia SUV. GM is dedicating $100 million to the changes at the Delta plant, and by the new year workers will see those plans come to life.

CAMBRIDGE, MA—A team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new AI system that could give robots the same dexterity as people.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden—Volvo Group recently unveiled the world’s first vehicle—a load carrier used in mining and quarrying—made of steel produced without the use of fossil fuels.

GEORGETOWN, KY—Toyota is proposing a new $460.8 million expansion of its assembly plant here, already the company’s largest in the world.

DEARBORN, MI—Ford has notified 308 UAW members who work in Michigan and Ohio that they will be “immediately” changed from temporary to full-time status.

MOLINE, IL—Union workers at Deere & Co. would get wage increases of 10 percent in the first year and 5 percent each in the third and fifth years under a tentative contract reached between the farm-equipment maker and the United Auto Workers union.

SPRING HILL, TN—A decade after announcing plans to build a new assembly plant in Chattanooga, TN, French automotive supplier Faurecia is continuing to expand in Tennessee with plans to invest another $18 million and add another 171 jobs at the company’s assembly plant in Spring Hill, TN.

LAS VEGAS—Electric-autonomous-vehicle manufacturer Nuro is investing $40 million in an end-of-line manufacturing facility and a closed-course test track to commercialize and scale production of its third-generation vehicle, the R2.

DELANO, MN—Contract manufacturer Solar Plastics LLC says that it is expanding its manufacturing capabilities into Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and will begin operations at a new plant there by the end of 2021.