Truck market speeding toward 70%
The sprint to “70 percent” — light trucks’ share of the overall U.S. new-vehicle market — took a giant leap in the first quarter, capped by a spectacular March.
Nissan enters former radioactive zone for battery recycling venture
Nissan has opened a first-of-its-kind processing center in a plant that was abandoned by the previous owner when the region became a radioactive no-go zone following Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster.
Japanese supplier Topre rekindles Ohio brownfield
Topre America, a relative newcomer as a U.S. producer of high-strength steel components, is setting up a foundation built upon the former site of an International Harvester heavy stamping and press plant in Ohio.
Honda cultivates new partners in Silicon Valley
To return to its scrappy roots, Honda is looking outside for new technologies in connectivity, robotics and automated driving.
California proposes new rules for self-driving cars to pick up passengers
California’s public utility regulator on Friday signaled it would allow self-driving vehicle makers to transport passengers without a backup driver in the vehicle, a step forward for autonomous car developers just as the industry faces heightened…