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The Belvidere Assembly Plant on Nov. 9, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

Stellantis will build pickup truck at reopened Illinois plant, executive tells employees

January 22, 2025 at 1:43 p.m.

The automaker says it will build the next-generation Dodge Durango SUV in Detroit and a midsize pickup truck at the currently closed assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois.

The Chevrolet Equinox EV that starts at $33,600 was General Motors Co.'s best-selling EV in the fourth quarter. Consumers are emphasizing affordability in their purchases of new vehicles. (Jim Fets/Chevrolet/TNS)

Automakers face affordability challenge in 2025

January 7, 2025 at 2:06 p.m.

Although automakers have emphasized cost reductions and increased incentive spending, they've also sought to prioritize profit margins to fund investments in electrification and other future technology.

Detroit man charged in knife attack at park that left a 7-year-old Muslim girl wounded

October 11, 2024 at 4:52 p.m.

A 73-year-old Detroit man accused of slashing a young girl’s throat this week on the city’s west side has been charged, officials said.

Stellantis' Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Michigan will lose 191 workers. (Stellantis/TNS)

Stellantis cuts temps and full-time workers at Michigan plant, more layoffs planned

September 25, 2024 at 2:44 p.m.

Stellantis NV is expected to terminate 191 workers at its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant by this weekend, according to the United Auto Workers. Some 177 of those affected are supplemental...

UAW Region 1 Associate Director Ray Pecoraro speaks during an Aug. 23 rally outside the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, where union members called on Stellantis to keep a commitment to reopen the Belvidere Assembly Plant in Illinois in 2027 to build a midsize pickup. The union is threatening to strike over the automaker's plans to delay the restart of production. (Daniel Mears/The Detroit News/TNS)

UAW-Stellantis faceoff over Belvidere plant’s future centers on a single contract sentence

September 3, 2024 at 2:05 p.m.

One sentence in a contract document that runs more than 300 pages is drawing scrutiny as the United Auto Workers warns it could strike Stellantis NV over the automaker’s delays...

Delta to offer free wifi on most domestic flights

February 1, 2023 at 6:15 p.m.

Delta Air Lines Inc. on Wednesday launched free WiFi on 75% of its domestic mainline aircraft, an early step toward its overhaul of in-flight entertainment in favor of personalization and free...

La planta de Abbott en Sturgis, Michigan, fotografiada el 13 de mayor de 2022.

¿Qué fue lo que generó la crisis de la fórmula infantil en EEUU?

August 2, 2022 at 5:30 p.m.

En el departamento de servicios de calidad de la planta de fabricación de fórmulas infantiles de Abbott Laboratories en Sturgis, los empleados estaban en sus cubículos un viernes por la...

'Sam', directora ejecutiva del Centro para Mujeres y Planificación Familiar de Scotsdale, da un recorrido por el centro, incluida la sala de recuperación, en Detroit, Michigan, el 8 de julio de 2022.

Michigan es el paraíso del aborto y las clínicas se ven abarrotadas

August 2, 2022 at 4:55 p.m.

Una loca carrera por los servicios de aborto en todo el país ha disparado la demanda de abortos en Michigan, ya que otros estados han cerrado sus clínicas a raíz...

A GMC Sierra 1500 pickup on the assembly line at the General Motors Fort Wayne Assembly plant in Roanoke, Indiana.

Armadoras de autos y proveedores se vuelven creativos para atraer mano de obra pese a la crisis laboral

June 14, 2022 at 5:37 p.m.

Ethan Pearl llevaba casi un año buscando trabajo cuando entró en el evento de contratación de General Motors Co., en la planta de camiones de esta localidad, en una lluviosa...

Esta fotografía tomada el 30 de noviembre de 2021 muestra una vista desde el interior de uno de los taxis autónomos que se utilizan en una demostración tecnológica en la capital de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Abu Dhabi, para transportar pasajeros a la cercana isla de Yas.

¿Qué pasa cuando la policía detiene un auto sin conductor? Ve este video y entérate

April 15, 2022 at 1:40 p.m.

¿Quién recibe una multa en un automóvil sin conductor? Resulta que nadie lo sabe, según supo recientemente la policía de San Francisco. A principios de este mes, un peatón vio...

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