The chip shortage is still front and center in automotive news as Ford announces more delays and plant idling for some of their most profitable lines, F-150 trucks and Escapes. Ford has said it will lose at least 1.1 million vehicles in production in

Ford will be naming their new Electric truck the F-150 lightning. They will be launching the new truck on Wednesday the 19th. The truck will be revealed live across social media and also on display in time square and the Las Vegas Strip. The

   Many of the US auto manufacturers are reporting profits for Q1 of 2021, they all agree that this is not going to be extrapolate out for the rest of this year and to expect major decreases in earnings moving forward.  The biggest hurdle

GM had a full press release of their new GMC Hummer EV and are now taking pre orders. GM has also announced plans for a 100% electric Silverado in 2023. Boasting a 400 mile range on a full charge by the President of GM.

US auto manufacturer are reporting sales increase in Q1 over last year. Ford is reporting a 0.6% increase. General Motor is up 3.7% with retail sales up 19% and fleet sales down 35%. Stellantis also reporting a 5.1% increase. Remember that these numbers are compared

An automotive chip manufacturing plant in Japan owned by Renesas caught fire last Friday. The fire was contained and put out without any injury but it did damage equipment in one of their clean rooms. The damage is expected to be very difficult to

This week Ford opened up its fleet order banks for the 2022 super duty trucks. We are expecting this year to be much different than most years as part shortages and production problems are still found all over the world and abundantly in the

3 Us lawmakers are calling for a freeze on the Oshkosh contract to produce the next generation vehicles for the USPS. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the chair of an appropriations subcommittee, along with Reps. Jared Huffman and Tim Ryan are wanting to investigate if the

The biggest story in domestic auto manufacturing is still the supply chain issues and production delays that do not look like they are going anywhere anytime soon. In a recent meeting I had with one of the major manufacturers, some plants are recycling the

The auto industry continues to have trouble amidst the world’s semiconductor shortage. Everyone from General Motors to Tesla is seeing production affected as yesterday Tesla announced it will be idling its Model 3 line in California for 2 weeks. On a brighter note, even