“Nexteer, in five or ten years, will be bigger than it is today,” said Niklaus A. Von Matt, product engineering manager at auto supplier Nexteer. He made that prediction at the end of July, when he talked with DrivingGrowth.org about market opportunities for the company’s fuel-saving Electric Power Steering (EPS) system.
For two years in a row, the Chevy Volt has ranked #1 in the Consumer Reports customer satisfaction survey, with a whopping 92% of vehicle owners saying they’d buy the same car again.
Memo to corporate bond buyers: The auto parts industry is back. That’s the news from Fitch Ratings, a global credit rating agency that provides investment advice to purchasers of corporate securities.
In my travels around the Midwest this fall, talking to people about clean energy and a safe environment, I’ve heard from many people how they are eager to move beyond politics and start in earnest rebuilding the economy and restoring America to manufacturing leadership.
As Midwest Advocacy Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, I visit communities around the region who are still suffering the effects of the Great Recession. In the heat of election season, every bit of economic news tends to be viewed through a partisan lens. But as political passions cool a bit, what you find is a hunger among Americans of all political stripes for new jobs and business opportunities ‚Äì and for ways to create a cleaner, and more […]
New provisions in the recently finalized model year 2017 to 2025 carbon and fuel efficiency rules are set to give a huge boost to Innovative fuel-efficiency technologies. These new so-called “off-cycle credits” provisions — buried amidst 3,000 pages of regulatory documents — are a new addition to the federal clean car programs standards that require the equivalent of 54.5 mpg by 2025. The big winner of the new credit system is stop-start ignition systems.
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