PureForge’s proprietary treatment creates a “super-tough” surface suitable for all brake applications. It also can be used on the heavy, cast-iron rotors used in motor vehicles – including electric vehicles.
The union says it is demanding a contract which repays active and retired members for their sacrifices at a time when the Detroit Three automakers have made billions in profits.
The United Steelworkers and United Auto Workers unions are beginning to crack the non-union walls at plants in the South, with organizing wins in Georgia and Missouri.
As Ford cuts prices on Mach-E, it is increasing targeted range for the standard-range model to an EPA-estimated 250 miles for rear-wheel drive and 226 miles for all-wheel drive.
Customers for Clarios batteries include a broad range of vehicle manufacturers from makers of heavy trucks to light vehicles as well as aftermarket outlets such as AutoZone.
The plant in Orion Township, MI, which was on GM’s cost-cutting chopping block during the automaker’s bankruptcy in 2009, is now a center of the company’s push for electrification.
Introduced in late 2019, the Cybertruck’s market launch has been pushed back over the years as CEO Elon Musk ordered various elements redesigned to make it less expensive.
GM says its claims against Stellantis, now pending in Wayne County (MI) Circuit Court, are “different and much broader” than the racketeering case the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear.