• Ford and GE plan to produce 50 000 ventilators in the 100 days leading up to July 4. Production begins the week of April 20.

• The ventilators will be built at a retooled Ford plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

• The announcement follows the news that GM is working with Ventec to produce thousands of the life-saving systems.

Ford and GE Healthcare announced a collaboration today to begin production of ventilators beginning the week of April 20. Together, they plan on building 50,000 of the systems in the following 100 days, or by July 4

Lamborghini has taken the major step of closing its production facility in Sant'Agata Bolognese as the coronavirus pandemic spreads in Italy.

The Detroit Three have agreed to UAW demands to shut down all North America plants as a precaution against coronavirus.

Another of the new-car debuts denied to us by the cancellation of the Geneva auto show has just been officially unveiled at an event in London. The Apex AP-0 is an all-electric sports car that its maker says will go into production in late 2022. The company behind it intends to sell it in the United States as well as other global market.

General Motors ' move to revive the Hummer name as an electric vehicle sub-brand of GMC was kind of a shocker -- pun intended -- and despite spending all kinds of dough on a Super Bowl ad for the forthcoming electric truck, we still know very little about it.

The Crewe-based automaker doesn't want to rush development with the current battery tech.

The recent problem of unscrupulous online vape and flashlight sellers installing raw lithium-ion cells into their products with the expectation that consumers will replace these cells themselves is making the problem worse. It is a situation that LG Chem is addressing with full-page newspaper advertisements and a dedicated web site reminding consumers that bare lithium-ion cells are not consumer battery products that are safe to use on their own.

BMW has toyed with the idea of a pickup truck (or a ute) plenty of times in the past, but in the latest frustrating tease for a Bimmer with a bed, the head of product management for BMW M claimed an electric truck would be easy to build.

The first prototypes of the new van from London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) are now being built at the company’s factory in Ansty, Coventry, ahead of its debut in April.

Due to the advanced manufacturing flexibility of the LEVC plant it has been possible to build these verification prototypes on the same line as current TX production.

The prototypes will be deployed as test vehicles and undergo a strict development and homologation program, including hot and cold climate testing, durability and crash testing.

Chalk it up to coincidence that a California company called HAAH Automotive Holdings announced it would build Chery's Exceed SUVs, under a new brand name, from knock-down kits in the U.S., and that Geely will merge with the Volvo brand, weeks after President Trump announced Phase One of a trade deal with China, and just as the Wuhan-based 2019 nCoV—you know it better as coronavirus—expanded as a worldwide health epidemic…

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There probably aren't many people who remember the last time Cadillac offered a diesel engine option for its coupe and sedans. Yes, for a brief period from 1978 to 1985 buyers could look forward to—if that's the right perspective—a factory-installed oil burner borrowed from Oldsmobile in their Cadillac luxobarges. The 5.7-liter LF9 V-8 diesel could be had in the Eldorado, Seville, de Ville, and Fleetwood Brougham, and it was intended to pick off high-end car buyers who'd otherwise be flocking to Mercedes-Benz's sturdy and luxurious diesel vehicles at the time. Today, Cadillac is giving diesel another try in its all-new 2021 Escalade SUV, and for similar reasons.