Tag: Manufacturing

Stuart Rowley

Stuart Rowley is vice president and chief operating officer, Ford North America, effective March 1, 2018. Rowley is responsible for driving the redesign of the North American business to improve its overall fitness. He reports to Kumar Galhotra, group vice president and president, Ford North America. Previously, Rowley was vice president of Strategy, Ford Motor… Continue reading Stuart Rowley

Active On-Demand provides Ford with time critical solution

Mission critical air and ground transport solutions supplier Active On-Demand, Roadrunner Transport Systems company, helped Ford to resume vehicle production after a fire disrupted its operations. Ford needed to have an 87,000-pound die tool, used to cut or shape material using a press, transported from Ohio, USA to Nottingham, United Kingdom. Normally it would take… Continue reading Active On-Demand provides Ford with time critical solution

Porsche stops selling new cars

D he sports car manufacturer Porsche has suspended the sale of all new cars until further notice. The background to this is the changeover to the new exhaust gas measuring cycles WLTP and RDE, which entail stricter requirements both in the approval procedure on the test bench and in real day-to-day operation. They apply gradually… Continue reading Porsche stops selling new cars

Porsche sinks in the exhaust fog

Porsche For the time being, it will not be able to sell any new cars that have been put together to order because the certification is stuck to the new emissions standard. These news has alarmed industry and politics, Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer has nachgehakt directly at Porsche, it is already suspected, here is… Continue reading Porsche sinks in the exhaust fog

Everything dummies

D he currently valid Russian joke goes like this: Putin I do not want to be a Czar, because there is only one coronation, but the inauguration of the President can be repeated endlessly. On May 7, it was Putin’s fourth time. Just in time for the ceremony, the parliament of the Chechnya republic proposed… Continue reading Everything dummies

Honda faces the real cost of Brexit in a former Spitfire plant

BMW UK plants: Mini, Oxford (4,000 staff); Rolls-Royce, Goodwood (1,700); engines, Hams Hall, Birmingham (800); bodywork, Swindon (850) Makes: Minis, all Rolls-Royce model HONDA UK plants: Cars and engines, Swindon (4,000 staff) Makes: Civic NISSAN UK plant: Cars and engines, Sunderland (7,000 employees) Makes: Qashqai, Leaf, Juke ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Such are the surreal options facing Honda… Continue reading Honda faces the real cost of Brexit in a former Spitfire
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Christine Todd Whitman: Oil industry is ‘peddling misinformation’ about electric vehicles

As states and cities push for more and more ambitious clean energy targets, the electricity that powers our lives will increasingly be derived from solar, wind, nuclear and other low- or no-emission or non-polluting energy sources. And battery recycling will become more common as economies of scale make it an increasingly profitable business. That will… Continue reading Christine Todd Whitman: Oil industry is ‘peddling
misinformation’ about electric vehicles

Tesla is asking Model 3 reservation holders for another $2,500 to order their cars

Buyers who confirm won’t immediately get a specific delivery date, but Tesla’s email says delivery could happen “in as soon as 2-4 months.” Tesla typically schedules delivery or pickup appointments within two weeks of the date they expect to deliver a Model 3 to a customer. The company has not yet manufactured a base-model version… Continue reading Tesla is asking Model 3 reservation holders for another
$2,500 to order their cars