Five years ago, managers at BMW realized that with Germany’s graying population the average age of their workers would jump from 41 to 46 by 2017. So they decided to make it happen sooner. The luxury ...

In production since June 2013, the W222 is getting on a bit despite the mid-cycle refresh that brought the M256 inline-six engine to the range. Come 2020, Mercedes-Benz will take the veil off the ...

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) said Friday that its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center will now be known as Factory ZERO and reconfigured to an all-electric vehicle assembly plant. The "ZERO" is a ...

Ford is aiming to build 150,000 F-150 Lightnings a year at its revamped factory. The EV assembly line is more spacious and less cluttered than the typical car factory. Ford is rushing to fill 200,000 ...

The Tesla Factory has a mini-museum in the front, and so I got to see the Tesla Roadster test mule. This is the first driving vehicle made by Tesla Motors. Murilee Martin The Model S prototype is ...

The rise of and transition to electrification is changing the way we think about designing, driving and refueling (or bidirectionally recharging) our cars. But for automakers such as the Hyundai Motor ...

The iconic General Motors factory that straddles two cities is getting a new moniker as GM turns it into its most modern plant in the country. Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly will now be Factory ZERO, ...

I recently spoke with Chan Pin CHONG, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Products and Solutions at Kulicke & Soffa, about how smart manufacturing is driving new production efficiencies in ...

FREMONT, Calif.—Tesla’s new tented facility isn’t just a new temporary “assembly line” but is seemingly the first phase of an entirely new building, dubbed “Factory 2.0.” On June 16, CEO Elon Musk ...

Tesla is preparing a fifth assembly line at its Fremont, California, factory as it prepares to add Model Y production to the already very busy plant. There have been a lot of talks about how many cars ...