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The statewide reporting on the recent Beijing Auto Show captured the changes both in China's auto market and the country itself. It should also be a wakeup call and a major catalyst for change by Michigan's leaders. The reporting reinforces my experience in China and my more than 21 years ...
The Willow Run Transmission plant, set to be closed under General Motors' bankruptcy plan next year, could become a military vehicle rehabilitation facility, an aide to Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Thursday. Frederick W. Hoffman, Granholm's special advisor for economic development and special projects and a 20-year veteran of Chrysler, said ...
The electrification of the vehicle creates a variety of problems associated with the electrical grid. But it's also an emerging opportunity for software developers. That’s why Google, for example, has initiated a barely publicized venture into software development for electric car charging management. The effort launches the Internet giant directly ...
Editor's note: This story was updated at 12:05 p.m. and again at 12:37 p.m.Chelsea's 95-year-old Palmer Ford dealership will shut down, its owner confirmed this morning.Biff Weber, third-generation owner of the downtown Chelsea dealership, said the move is his decision. He's meeting with Ford corporate officials this afternoon in Dearborn ...
Political officials have abandoned hopes of convincing General Motors to retain its historic Willow Run plant. U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, and Ypsilanti Township officials confirmed they're no longer clinging to hopes that GM would reverse its June 1 decision to close the 5-million-square-foot plant by the end of 2010.
The Ann Arbor region’s unemployment rate ticked downward to 10.3 percent in July, mirroring a brief respite in Michigan’s workforce contraction. The area’s jobless rate dipped from 10.6 percent in June to 10.3 percent in July, according to statistics released this afternoon by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and ...
General Motors has reduced the headcount at its Willow Run transmission plant to 700, fewer than three months after announcing that it would close the historic plant by December 2010. Daphne Adams, communications manager for the plant, confirmed that the 5-million-square-foot facility has about 700 hourly and salaried employees remaining, ...
Stephen Forrest doesn’t mind picking winners. In fact, he thinks it’s imperative. Forrest, the University of Michigan’s vice president for research and chairman of Ann Arbor SPARK, is a fervent proponent of leveraging university technology to reconstruct Michigan’s economy on the backbone of alternative energy and other technologies.
The auto industry’s rapid embrace of lithium-ion batteries for future electric vehicles is fueling an oasis of investment for Ann Arbor in the midst of the economic desert that’s drying opportunity in Michigan. Ann Arbor’s scientific contributions to the battery development race are evident in the success of researchers and ...
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