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In another example illustrating just how prevalent the threat of wire fraud is to manufacturing companies, a newly-reported case in Ohio involved a former Verizon employee duping a major industrial d…
It’s a brand new plant, and it stinks.
That’s the problem Stellantis has been facing, after more than 50 odor complaints have been submitted in reference to the automaker’s one-year-old Jeep plant in …
This past year could be charitably described as “mixed” for the automotive industry.
After what turned out to be a relatively brief blip due to the outbreak of COVID-19 the previous year, consumer dem…
Apple took issue with how one of its iPhone factories in southern India was being run and placed the Foxconn plant “on probation.” BBC News reports Apple’s action came after the protesting of food po…
An unlikely candidate has immersed itself in the electric vehicle industry. Two years ago, Sony, the company known for electronics such as cameras, televisions and headphones, announced its Vision-S …
For the first time in nearly a century, General Motors won’t be able to claim the title of “America’s top automaker.”
Instead, that designation — for this year, anyway — will belong to a Japanese comp…
Let’s all take a moment to thank Amazon, and their Ring doorbell division, for looking at ways to keep us and the packages we purchase from them safe … by profiling people via their eye color, finger…
The owner of a civil engineering firm has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an explosion at his company’s facility more than three years ago.
The case began after…
An independent, court-appointed monitor of the United Autoworkers Union says the UAW has “fallen short” on the many reform efforts laid out in a settlement with prosecutors last year.
The union had be…
Cadillac enjoyed decades as the nation’s leading luxury auto brand — so much so that its name is still synonymous with the finest in pretty much any field you care to mention.
But in recent decades, a…
For that highly nuanced person who wants to combine executive level business savvy with down-and-dirty racing tricks, Dodge just might have the job for you.
The maker of the Challenger Hellcat and oth…
Consumers in the market for a new car have faced a unique challenge this year: because of shortages of critical components, scarcity on dealer lots has resulted in less choice. But before you concede…
Employees of a Refresco bottling factory in Wharton, New Jersey are voicing their displeasure.
Yahoo! News reports the workers filed federal complaints with OSHA to report unsafe conditions. The empl…
The World Health Organization announced the possibility of a global shortage of syringes in 2022 for the COVID-19 vaccine in the 1 billion to 2 billion range.
UN News reported a WHO senior adviser, Li…
Amid rising food costs nearly across the board, the typical Thanksgiving feast will be considerably more expensive than a year ago.
The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 36th annual Thanksgiving Items…
On a day when a large share of Americans seek to recover from Thanksgiving excess, Elon Musk effectively ordered his employees back to their posts in Hawthorne, California, in order to address a “dis…
Tesla’s Cybertruck is hard to forget.
In late 2019, Elon Musk took the stage to unveil his company’s latest design, a futuristic, boxy EV truck described by observers as a “large metallic trapezoid.”
I…
In the seven years since Tesla first debuted the advanced driver-assist technology known as Autopilot, the system has made headlines over everything from ill-advised driver behavior to deadly crashes…
A computer vision startup claims it has the solution to improving fast-food worker performance. The startup, Agot AI, comes from Pittsburgh and its plan involves the installation of cameras in fast f…
Charles Munger isn’t as well-known as Warren Buffett, for whom he has long served as right-hand man at the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.
But the 97-year-old, like the Oracle of Omaha, is a Nebraska…