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    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      News in-depthUnited Auto Workers
      Strike pits US auto union in existential struggle over shift to electric vehicles

      Carmakers are building batteries with non-union labour, while EVs’ production may require fewer workers overall

      Senator Bernie Sanders and UAW President Shawn Fain speak at a rally in support of United Auto Workers members on September 15 in Detroit, Michigan
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      US Inflation Reduction Act
      Inside the $220bn American cleantech project boom

      One year after the IRA and Chips Act became law, FT research shows who is winning the investment race

      A montage of US President Joe Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and a bar graph
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      Tesla Inc
      Tesla CFO and company veteran Zach Kirkhorn quits

      One of Elon Musk’s closest lieutenants will be replaced by accounting chief Vaibhav Taneja

      Zach Kirkhorn
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      The fight for the right to repair

      Citizens must become campaigners for better, longer-lasting smart machines

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of a printer being repaired and calibrated.
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Automobiles
      US carmakers face a union looking for its ‘defining moment’

      Contract talks carry risks for big three and Biden’s re-election push in battleground states

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new era of big government: Biden rewrites the rules of economic policy

      Forty years after Reaganomics rejected government intervention in the economy, the US is embracing massive subsidies. But will voters notice?

      A montage photo of a Viridi Parente worker, the US flag and US great seal
    • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
      News in-depthUS employment
      US manufacturing jobs at highest levels since 2008 but growth is slowing

      Data shows mixed picture for President Joe Biden as he hangs re-election prospects on industrial boom

      Joe Biden speaks at an event
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Climate change
      US cannot rely on allies to meet climate goals, warns Mitsubishi

      Domestic manufacturing and ‘friendshoring’ will struggle to supply the clean energy boom

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Ashtead Group PLC
      Ashtead profits jump 30% as US manufacturing moves ‘onshore’

      UK equipment rental group sees momentum from big construction projects and Biden legislation

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Bruce Katz
      Old industrial cities can be central to America’s economic future

      The legacy assets they retain may prove crucial to the country’s manufacturing

      Mill workers in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1917
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Aircraft manufacturing
      Boeing CEO warns climate-friendly biofuels will ‘never achieve the price of jet fuel’

      David Calhoun tells transport executives there is no cheap way of decarbonising air travel

      A fuel pipeline is connected to a Boeing 777 aircraft at London Stansted airport
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Ford Motor Co
      Ford strikes lithium deals in bid to secure EV battery supplies

      Carmaker seeks to reduce $7bn cost gap with rivals by simplifying ranges and supply chains

    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      News in-depthElectric vehicles
      Welcome to Normal: the town that holds the keys to Rivian’s future

      Cash-burning electric vehicle start-up recruits workers in Illinois corn belt pursuing 50,000-delivery goal

      Rivian pick-up trucks on the assembly line in Normal, Illinois
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      29 min
      Why 3D printing is vital to success of US manufacturing | FT Film

      New additive manufacturing technology can boost innovation and jobs in a de-globalising world

      The future of manufacturing
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘Transformational change’: Biden’s industrial policy begins to bear fruit

      FT research shows commitments of more than $200bn to US manufacturing since IRA and Chips Act

      Joe Biden montage with logos of Ford Motor, TSMC and LG
    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      US manufacturing commitments double after Biden subsidies launched

      Companies plan to spend over $200bn on clean technology and semiconductors following IRA and Chips Act

      Worker at a solar panel plant in China
    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      If tech is driving the ‘productivity bandwagon’, it’s time to hit the brakes

      Throughout history, technologists have set their own narrative about the benefits they bring — Silicon Valley is no different

      Three large robots approach a bank of people working at their desks, with the first robot grasping a man and throwing him out of the window
    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      A new technology boom is at hand

      Consumer tech might no longer be a growth area, but the digitisation of industry has just begun

      A large robotic arm dispenses the components of a building under construction while a small person looks on
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Volkswagen AG
      VW to build $2bn electric vehicle plant in South Carolina

      German carmaker also seeks site for its first battery factory in North America

      A VW ID.4 electric car at the company’s Wolfsburg plant
    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      Electric vehicles
      Electric vehicles defy price war after Ford and Tesla discounts

      GM, Volkswagen, Hyundai and Kia decline to follow competitors as customer demand persists

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      LexSemiconductors
      Apple/chips: homemade chips does not mean homemade fabs Premium content

      The iPhone maker’s links with Asian contract suppliers are unlikely to be broken

      An Apple store in Taiwan
    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
      TSMC reaffirms ‘commitment to Taiwan’ despite US chip push

      Semiconductor maker says it has spent $60bn at home to expand cutting-edge production

      A TSMC chip wafer
    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Year in a word: Decoupling

      Rising inequality, Covid and war in Ukraine have led to growing support for localisation

      Illustration showing a piece of string being pulled in half
    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Electric vehicles
      Union wins election in first at Detroit-owned electric vehicle battery plant

      Ohio-based venture of General Motors and LG Chem is successfully organised by United Auto Workers

      Hummer electric vehicles at the grand opening of General Motors’ Factory Zero in Detroit
    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      Workers need more than platitudes about ‘green jobs’

      The net zero transition is a social challenge as well as a financial and technological one

      Tata Group’s steel plant in Port Talbot, near Swansea
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