Industries > Automotive | SupplyChainBrain

Automotive: Page 73

Can a VMT Tax Solve the Infrastructure Funding Dilemma?

When to comes to figuring out how to pay for repairing, building and maintaining the nation’s transportation infrastructure, “taxes” has become something of a dirty word.

Vehicles pass over a bridge at dusk. Photo: Henrik Jonsson/ Canva.

What Will Replace Silicon Chips in the Next Generation of EVs?

As automakers scramble to make electric vehicles with longer ranges and speedier charging times, the chip industry has a message for them: You’re doing it wrong.

An employee displays a 300mm silicon-carbide wafer. Photo: Bloomberg.

Six Ways the Auto Industry Uses IoT Technology

IoT technology offers many applications to the automotive sector.

0928 Traffic

Ford, SK Building $11.4 Billion Electric Truck, Battery Plants

Ford Motor Co. and South Korea’s SK Innovation Co. plan to spend $11.4 billion to construct three battery factories and an assembly plant for electric F-Series pickup trucks in Tennessee and Kentucky, the biggest investment in the U.S. automaker’s history.

A car battery assembly line. Photo: Getty Images.

Assessing the Impact of Global Supply Chain Shocks

The vulnerability of complex global supply chains, built over decades of globalization, has been exposed by COVID-19 and geopolitical shocks.

Photo: Bloomberg

White House Weighs Invoking Defense Law to Get Chip Data

The Biden administration is considering invoking a Cold War-era national security law to force companies in the semiconductor supply chain to provide information on inventory and sales of chips.

An employee inspect wafers using an optical microscope. Photo: Bloomberg.

Deserted Factories Show How China Electric Car Boom Went Too Far

While home-grown stars like Nio Inc. and Xpeng Inc. have gone on to raise billions of dollars and are now selling cars in numbers that rival Tesla, scores more have fallen by the wayside, unable to raise the crazy amounts of capital needed to make automobiles at scale.

Byton Ltd. booth at CES 2020, courtesy of Byton.

FedEx Partners With Self-Driving Car Startup Aurora in Texas

Aurora Innovation Inc. will help move cargo for FedEx Corp. in a pilot project in Texas that uses the startup’s technology in a self-driving Paccar Inc. truck.

1107 Fed Ex

GM Plans ‘Substantial Shifts’ in Supply Chain as Chip Woes Last

General Motors is planning to revamp its supply chain as the pandemic-triggered chip shortage and rising demand for chip-intensive vehicles have demonstrated the need for an overhaul.

General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra. Photo: Bloomberg.

Obscure Firm’s 1,219% Rise Shows Profit, Pain of Chip Crunch

The semiconductor squeeze is turning low-profile companies like Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board Corp. into star players.

Photo: Bloomberg

Walmart Teams With Ford, Argo to Launch Driverless Delivery Service

Walmart is teaming up with Ford and self-driving startup Argo AI to launch a driverless delivery service in three U.S. cities.

A Walmart Inc. storefront. Photo: Bloomberg.

Tesla Co-Founder Aims to Build an Entire U.S. Battery Industry

Redwood Materials Inc., the battery recycling company created by Tesla Inc. co-founder J.B. Straubel, has been keeping a big secret: It isn’t really a recycling company.

An electric vehicle charges. Photo: Bloomberg.

Page 73 of 258

Featured Product

Photo: iStock/Anastasiia Yanishevska

How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

Mobile geolocation service for track delivery, cargo shipment and freight transportation. Logistic Import Export business (Elements of this image furnished by NASA)

Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

Franchise business e-commerce online e-marketplace or digital marketing branch expansion for growth or use technology to analyze product consumer data website management plan for sale service concept.

Moving Robots Site-to-Site