CEO Mary Barra Bets GM Can Grow Beyond Cars and Trucks

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Pam Fletcher wants to change the way General Motors Co makes money. The veteran GM engineer’s Global Innovation team is looking for new enterprises to expand the automaker’s sources of revenue well beyond vehicle sales and is incubating ventures from commercial delivery services to vehicle insurance, to address future markets worth an estimated $1.3 trillion.… Continue reading CEO Mary Barra Bets GM Can Grow Beyond Cars and Trucks

Automakers Rev Up U.S. Assembly Lines, Wary of Outside Risks to Workers

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Automakers are speeding up U.S. assembly lines to meet recovering demand, increasingly confident coronavirus safety protocols are working to prevent outbreaks in their plants but wary of the challenges workers face outside. Screening workers for COVID-19 using temperature scans and questionnaires, the automakers have detected some people who reported for work despite being sick. Some… Continue reading Automakers Rev Up U.S. Assembly Lines, Wary of Outside Risks to Workers

Automakers Strike a Deal with California to Reduce Tailpipe Pollution

States sue over Biden rule on emissions

Four of the world’s largest automakers, including the Ford Motor Company, have struck a deal with California to reduce tailpipe pollution, in a blow to the Trump administration as it prepares to roll back national vehicle pollution standards and revoke states’ rights to set their own such rules. While Trump administration officials in the White… Continue reading Automakers Strike a Deal with California to Reduce Tailpipe Pollution