Month: May 2014

 Taking the EOBR mandate even further, the company Lytx has announced that their video camera system for commercial motor vehicles has the potential to reduce…

Chrysler reported a $690 million loss in the first quarter of 2014. This loss was associated with payments Fiat had to make to acquire a…

Though the article below is not directly linked to the auto industry, I think it would be still interesting to share this information. http://www.industryweek.com/IW-US-500 During…

Consumer vehicle markets are expanding in the US early in 2014, bolstered by the sales of light trucks  which are up 12.7% over April of…

In Detroit we met with several of Ford’s upper level employees, who discussed where they saw growth opportunity in the future.  Several times they pointed…

The bankruptcy of the Detroit automobile manufacturing industry can point towards exceedingly high legacy costs from its contracts with UAW (United Automobile Workers) as a…

I have always thought of turbochargers in a naïve way as something that would be in a car in movies like The Fast and the…

If I were to ask a random person which they perceived to be more dangerous, driving their car from Atlanta to DC or flying a…

This Huffington Post article discusses the struggle between auto companies and government regulators over the safety of driving cars with increasingly complex entertainment capacities.  We…

Subaru recently unveiled their new business plan aimed at adding new models and more capacity in order to increase sales, specifically in North America. The…