/PRNewswire/ Toyota Motor North America Inc. (TMNA) announces executive changes to its manufacturing organization effective June 30, 2021. Jim Zehmer, who.
As customers walk away from coupes and sedans, more Japanese automakers are joining the Detroit 3 and retreating from the small car markets where they once dominated.
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“Apparel is an old industry that is not doomed to being low profit and low technology. It’s in the midst of a reinvention, and that can be very exciting.”
So says John Thorbeck of Chainge Capital, a company name that is a play on words meant to communicate change in the supply chain. Thorbeck has collaborated with Stanford Professor Warren Hausman over the past decade to study supply chains outside of the apparel industry.
“We wanted to see what we could learn from the experiences of other industries,” Thorbeck said, “most notably the electronics and auto industries, that could apply to the fashion industry. Our answer is a resounding yes, there are lessons to be learned. We have focused on process innovation from those industries that might be transferrable into apparel. That learning in terms of research, case studies, models and financial metrics runs very deep and leads to our conv
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But in my mind, there’s nothing funny about how Tesla has treated workers.
Electric cars and trucks don’t make themselves they’re built and assembled by autoworkers like me. I started making cars in Fremont, Calif., more than 30 years ago. I started working at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., a joint General Motors/Toyota facility, when I was just 19 years old; I grew up in that building. Eventually, the plant closed and then reopened in 2015 as a Tesla plant.
By then, I was a father, and my kids taught me the value of “going green.” I was proud to clock in for my shifts building cars that would help protect our planet for their generation and beyond. That is, until I was fired in 2017 after helping organize a union at the plant. The National Labor Relations Board recently ordered my reinstatement with full back pay, but the company is fighting this decision in the courts.
Published: Friday, April 23, 2021
Electric vehicle from REE Automotive. Credit: Ree Auto/YouTube
A new electric vehicle from REE Automotive raises the question of who will make tomorrow s cars. Ree Auto/YouTube
In a video from REE Automotive, a startup out of Israel, its marquee product acts like an automobile, swerving around traffic cones and over bumps. But crucial stuff is missing. No doors or windows, no steering wheel, no fenders or brake pedals. It s just a board with wheels.
Yet it is a four-wheeled, self-powered vehicle with the ability to accelerate, brake and steer. So it s an automobile. Or is it?