Materials engineering is increasingly becoming an area of interest for automakers, as many applications of advanced materials that were once niche are being scaled up and used on high-volume vehicles.
Here are highlights from the latest episodes of 'Daily Drive', Automotive News' weekday podcast, Sept. 27-28, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
Someone climbed the pole and made off with the maple leaf flag that has flown over Laird Wheaton Chevrolet-Buick-GMC for decades.
Toyota is radically rebooting its famed manufacturing system for its next generation of Tesla-fighting electric vehicles, due in 2026. Automotive News synthesizes days of company briefings and demonstrations to deliver a step-by-step picture of the production processes that will churn out these lower-cost, giga-cast, software-defined EVs of tomorrow.
Chevrolet, Dodge, Jeep, Kia, Rolls-Royce and Volkswagen are among the brands with EVs coming to market by the end of 2024.