Automakers pledged to maintain lower inventories for higher profits when the production crisis abated. As the industry approaches 3 million unsold vehicles, will the lessons from that time take root? Or be ignored?
Sales data reveals customers are willing to make the switch to EVs at the right price, a challenge for automakers such as Ford that lose thousands on each one they sell.
A retry for the final launch ever of United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy, the last of the Delta family of rockets, remained up in the air over the weekend, but in the meantime, SpaceX sent up a pair of rockets from the Space Coast on Saturday.
Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/sxq3fRzjeo
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 30, 2024
First up from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A was the Eutelsat-36X mission flying a communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit lifting off at 5:52 p.m. The first-stage booster flew for the 12th time with landing on the Just Read the Instructions droneship downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.
Liftoff of Falcon 9, marking 260 reflights of Falcon boosters since our first one seven years ago today! pic.twitter.com/A12OqppvaU
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 31, 2024
Next up was a Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-45 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 9:30 p.m. The first-stage booster flew for the 18th time and made another recovery landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic.
Toyota Motor North America executive Jack Hollis said during the Automotive Forum New York that his company will not work with Amazon like Hyundai is doing.
Hyundai Motor Group has a big story to tell at the moment, and it used the New York show to make sure people heard.