Manufacturing
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China wants 18-month car programmes. Its regulator just pulled the handbrake
Surprise factory inspections, a 4.27-million-vehicle recall and a proposal to double mandatory road testing. Beijing is trying to slow an industry it spent a decade teaching to sprint, and its own executives are split on whether that is possible.
Three prototypes, four months: inside Slate's race to build a $24,950 pickup
Slate has a working body shop in a converted Indiana printing plant, 180,000 reservation holders and a Q4 delivery promise. The rest of the factory is still coming together.
Battery-plant storage pivots run into data-center backlash
Ford and GM are finding grid-storage work for battery capacity built around stronger EV forecasts. Data-center demand offers growth, along with a fast-spreading local political fight.
Ford's Louisville assembly tree is 40% quicker, but nets 15%
Ford says its rebuilt Louisville plant can assemble the $28,350 Fathom pickup 40% faster before added automation and quality checks reduce the net gain to 15%.
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