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GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI—Magna E-Car Systems, a partnership between Magna International and the Stronach Group, has opened a new assembly plant here to make components for hybrid and electric vehicles.

DETROIT—The world’s largest automakers are scrambling to find alternatives to a resin that’s critical for making brake- and fuel-system components. A March 31 explosion at chemical maker Evonik Industries halved the global supply of an ingredient used to make the resin, called PA-12.

ARLINGTON, TX—GM has begun constructing a new $200 million stamping facility at its assembly plant here.

LAFAYETTE, IN—Automotive Robotics Proving Labs and Purdue University are planning to build a new, $10 million engine testing facility here.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV—Automotive parts supplier Gestamp plans to create hundreds of jobs and invest a minimum of $100 million to build a new assembly plant here.

GOTHENBERG, Sweden—Volvo is planning to invest $11 billion to develop new products and increase its manufacturing presence in the next few years.

BIRMINGHAM, AL—A group of 25 assembly line workers from a Honda manufacturing plant here matched the first five winning numbers from the record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing. They will split $250,000.

DETROIT—Sales of GM’s Chevrolet Volt are picking up, leading the automaker to restart production a week early this month at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant.

YORK, PA—For a look at what’s to come for Harley-Davidson Inc., the best place to start is the company’s largest motorcycle factory, where change has been described as “leaning into a hurricane.”

ANN ARBOR, MI—Toyota will hire approximately 150 engineers, technicians, advanced researchers and scientists in the United States by the end of 2012.