Plants/Manufacturing

Canada's Lion Electric to build electric school buses in Illinois

$70 million plant and 750 jobs coming to Joliet

American firms eye lithium deposits as pivot to EVs drives demand

It's the next mineral rush, and it's coming here

VW's chip shortage: 'We are, for sure, in crisis mode'

Second-quarter profit's going to take a hit

Chip shortage explained: Low inventory, skyrocketing used car prices and no end in sight

Here's how this mess happened, and why it's not going away soon

GM, Stellantis report strong Q1 results despite production issues

Profitable trucks, SUVs made up for volume losses caused by microchip shortage

Investors eye U.S. chip startups while feds put pressure on Taiwan

American chip manufacturing is looking more and more appealing

Rental car agencies rush to build back fleets — by buying used cars

One more thing that is sending the price of used cars soaring

U.S. auto sales soar despite chip shortages, rebounding from pandemic lows

It's easy to beat COVID lockdown numbers, as it turns out

Chipmaker TSMC says it can catch up with automaker demand by late June

It'll then take time for supply chain to catch up, company tells '60 Minutes'

VW plans to design its own computer chips

Manufacturing would still be handled by outside suppliers

Germany plans to mine boiling-hot lithium deep beneath the Rhine River

The deposits could hold enough for 400 million electric cars

UAW wants EV tax incentives revised to require U.S. assembly

GM announced a major investment to build EVs in Mexico

GM investing $1 billion to build EVs in Mexico; UAW calls it 'unseemly'

This as Biden says U.S. workers should 'lead the world' in building EVs

Toyota has two all-new 8-passenger SUVs in the works, and one's a Lexus

They'll be electrified and feature a hands-free driving system

Porsche plans battery cell factory in southern Germany

Ford extends shutdown, Stellantis confirms layoffs due to chip shortage

Jeep's Jefferson North plant will shed crews until supply improves

Jaguar Land Rover output at two UK plants hit by chip shortage

JLR becomes the latest victim of the semiconductor crisis

Hyundai Q1 profit triples, as it adjusts production due to chip shortage

Hyundai also announced it's developing solid-state EV batteries

Daimler cuts hours for up to 18,500 workers over chip shortage

'We continue to play things by ear'

Renault sales fall for fifth straight quarter as it lags behind rivals

Lack of presence in China was partly to blame