HANOVER, Germany—Engineers at parts supplier Continental AG are predicting that vehicle functions controlled by software will increase from 10 percent to 40 percent by 2030.
DETROIT—Production at Ford Motor Co.’s Louisville, KY, assembly plant will be stopped for the second time this month, beginning this week, as a microchip shortage continues to upend the auto industry.
BRUSSELS—The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked the biggest decline in car production in Europe on record, according to data published last week by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.
LORDSTOWN, OH—Lordstown Motors Corp. has received more than 100,000 nonbinding reservations from commercial fleets for its Endurance all-electric pickup truck, with production scheduled to start here in September.
INGERSOLL, ON—General Motors Co. and labor union Unifor have reached a deal for the automaker to invest nearly C$1 billion ($785.42 million) in its CAMI Assembly Plant here to manufacture commercial electric vans.
WINDSOR, ON—A blockade at the delivery gate of FCA’s Windsor Assembly Plant has been removed after the company and Unifor Local 444 reached a temporary agreement on Jan. 10.
Component uniformity and product quality often go hand in hand. Knowing this, manufacturers do all they can to find the right equipment that ensures such uniformity batch after batch, day after day.