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Toyota, Honda, GM score better with suppliers

Six of the U.S. market’s major automakers continue to operate in two tiers of supplier relations, according to the annual North American Automotive OEM-Supplier Working Relations Index Study by Plante Moran. Despite a year of supply chain…

What do auto execs expect from future supply chain?

Two major desires are emerging from the chaos of the past year of pandemic and supply chain disruption: the need to be more flexible in the face of a crisis and the ability to see trouble coming.Those were the recurring themes in comments…

Half-built autos

Automakers are trying to keep production moving by cutting some luxury features, or storing some mostly-built vehicles in lots until chips are available.

Japan automakers scramble for lower overhead

That's a well-timed achievement. Nissan projects sales in this fiscal year will increase to exactly that level — 4.4 million vehicles, a gain of 8.6 percent. If the automaker's math is correct, that would enable it to break out of the red.…

Is this an opportunity to fix things?

4. CO2 reduction: After years of progress and ingenuity and debate, does anyone believe that it is a question of "can" global CO2 emissions be reduced? Isn't the real question simply "should" that happen? And if it should, then wouldn't it…

Stellantis, Foxconn finalize strategic partnership

MILAN -- Stellantis and iPhone assembler Foxconn will announce a strategic partnership on Tuesday. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, now part of Stellantis, said in January it planned to set up a joint venture with Hon Hai Precision Industry,…

Japanese automakers prepare to bounce back

"We believe we can achieve 5 percent operating margin eventually," Uchida said. "But if you look at the immediate challenges today in fiscal year 2021, there is a big impact from semiconductor and commodity price hikes. So at this point in…