There are 88 assembly plants that produce about 15 million vehicles a year, and 70% of them are moved by rail in the U.S. alone. Automobile manufacturing in all Canada and the U.S., tends to ...
Back in 1993, Mercedes-Benz started a new era in U.S. auto manufacturing when it opened an assembly plant in Alabama. Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai have since followed suit, helping create an industry that exported $7.5 billion worth of vehicles and parts in 2018. Employment ...
Alabama’s four assembly plants and affiliated factories contributed $10.8 billion to the state’s economy last year. That’s according to a new report from Autos Drive America and the American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA). According to the report, the auto industry has inve...
Mercedes-Benz has applied for tax breaks for potential projects at two U.S. plants, including its Tuscaloosa County facility and its electric delivery vans and medium-sized electric luxury transporter plant in South Carolina. Both expansions include new all-electric models. In Alabama that would be...
Honda Launches 2023 Pilot Production at Alabama Plant Honda Honda Dreams Onward With Week’s Most-Seen TV Auto Ad Honda Honda to Introduce Hydrogen-Electric Plug-in CUV in 2024 Honda Honda Packs More Power, Driving Fun Into ’23 CR-V Hybrid ...
Based on teamwork between plants and our flexible system we added new models in Alabama to optimize our North American capacity to meet customer demand in the most efficient manner. First, we moved production of the Ridgeline from Canada to Line 1 in Alabama alongside Odyssey. This allowed ...
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama earned its fourth award, and its engine plant was recognized for the second time. The Anna Engine Plant, located in Anna, Ohio, garnered its third award. The Honda Transmission Manufacturing plant, in Russells Point, Ohio, received its ...
Waste sent to landfills has been dramatically reduced at Honda auto plants throughout North America – from 62.8 pounds of industrial waste to landfills for every automobile produced in the fiscal year (FY) ended March 31, 2001, to an estimated 1.8 pounds per automobile in the current fiscal ...
A tour of the Birmingham, Alabama, plant floor with Mochrie before our test drive really drove this point home. Unlike most truck plants, there are no robots working frantically to weld or install vehicle components. There’s not even a moving assembly line. Because of the high amount of cu...
The next UAW target is a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, and the really interesting bit for our purposes is the intriguing way it has found to internationalise campaigning. The union hasfiled chargesagainst Mercedes under the newish supply chain law in Germany, which makes German companies respo...