In the Center for Automotive Research’s latest white paper, Rebuilding North American Tooling: Risk, Resiliency, and a New Economic Model, we examine a foundational part of the automotive ...

No industry on earth understands process optimization the way the automotive industry does. From the Toyota Production System to lean, kaizen, and their many descendants, OEMs have spent the better ...

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In this month’s Momentum, we explore how automotive companies are moving beyond the AI hype and focusing on practical applications that deliver measurable business value. With new U.S. tariffs enacted ...

As the industry prepares for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement of its 2023-2026 light-duty vehicle GHG standards, the EPA’s 2021 Automotive Trends Report offers a chance to ...

VW to halt Atlas, Passat output in Chattanooga amid chip shortage Toyota to halt production at two plants due to chip shortage Global computer chip shortage negatively impacts local car dealerships ...

Automaker investment in battery and Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturing in North America is on the rise. For nearly two decades, the CAR Automotive Communities Partnership (ACP) has tracked announced ...

Automotive supply chains have garnered a lot of attention of late. Beginning in early 2020, disruptions resulting from the global COVID-19 pandemic thrust them into the spotlight. More recently, ...

On a bi-weekly basis, the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) welcomes our audience to decompress with our President and CEO, Alan Amici, as he covers and shares his thoughts on the latest Hot Topics ...

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Developing and manufacturing a motor vehicle is a costly endeavor with uncertain paybacks. OEMs typically justify platform and powertrain business cases over a multi-year time horizon in order to meet ...