Text size Courtesy Rivian Production at Rivian Automotive grew in the first quarter from the fourth, but the stock was falling Wednesday. Rivian (ticker: RIVN) reported first-quarter production on Tue...
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NIO Has a Plan to End the Anxiety Over Charging Electric Vehicles
Text size NIO, the Chinese electric-vehicle maker, is in talks to license its battery swapping technology, according to the Financial Times. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Electric-vehicle sales are ...
Why We Need Open Manufacturing And What That Would Mean For You
For decades and decades, manufacturing has been closed off in hierarchical, highly controlled organizational forms. Think of factories where the workers clock in and don’t get let out for lunch, pinne...
Defense Stocks Rose With the Ukraine War. Then a Tight Proposed Budget Set Them Back.
Elias Stein Text size Defense stocks took a surprising blow after a proposed defense budget was released last week. The Biden administration asked Congress for $773 billion to fund defense for fiscal ...
China Covid-19 Outbreak Disrupting Supply Chains, Manufacturing, Investment, Staffing — AmCham Survey
Near deserted streets in the Puxi area of Shanghai, China, on Saturday, April 2, 2022. Shanghai’s 25 … [+] million residents are almost all under some form of lockdown as the financial hub scram...
EV, Microchip Manufacturing Will Make ‘Future Belt’ Out Of Heartland
A rendering of Ford’s planned EV- and battery-manufaturing complex in Stanton, Tennessee. Ford No thanks to President Biden, but flyover country is beginning to experience a major moment. It may...
How Manufacturers Can Make A Difference In Ukraine
I struggle to find words to describe the horrors of the situation in Ukraine right now. It seems every report adds a new wrinkle, a new terror to toss around in your head: the bombing of a maternity w...
What If The Top Technologies In Manufacturing Worked Together?
A plethora of technologies shape manufacturing and continue to do so. Think CNC machining, robotics, 3D-printing, robotics, software, Internet of Things (IoT), digital twins, AI/AR, and photonics, jus...
Deere Stock Catches an Upgrade, but This Analyst Likes a Rival Better
Text size John Deere tractors. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images J.P. Morgan raised its rating on Deere stock to Hold from Sell, but it isn’t that the analyst had a change of heart. A different person is t...
New Balance bulks up manufacturing presence in U.S. amid supply chain backlogs
New Balance has opened its fifth manufacturing space in North America. This one is in Methuen, Massachusetts. Source: New Balance While many retailers are struggling to preserve relationships with ove...
How Putin’s War Made These 3 Fertilizer Producers Hot Stocks
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Since Russia invaded Ukraine, shares of Saskatoon, Canada’s Nutrien , the Western Hemisphere’s top fertilizer maker, have climbed 37%. The Energy Select Sector SP...
Joby Reports a Profit From No Sales. The Stock Is Soaring.
Text size Courtesy Joby Aviation Electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation managed to produce a profit in the fourth quarter even though it doesn’t have any sales just yet. Shares were rising sharply Frid...
The Wise, Above-Average Use Of Autonomy In Auto Manufacturing
TOYOTA CITY, 2017: Robot arms weld the bodies of fourth generation Toyota Prius cars on the … [+] production line at Toyota’s Tsutsumi Assembly Plant. (Photo credit: TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP...
Malaysian Billionaire Stanley Thai Invests $350 Million To Build Supermax’s Glove Manufacturing Plant In Texas
Stanley Thai of Supermax speaks during an interview in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goh Seng Chong/Bloomberg Supermax Corp, controlled by Malaysian billionaire Stanley Thai, said its U.S. unit Maxter Healt...
The All-Electric Cadillac Lyriq Is Here. What It Means for GM Stock.
The Lyriq has 300 miles of driving range, via a 100-kilowatt-hour battery. Cadillac photo Text size General Motors began retail production of its all-electric luxury crossover vehicle, the Cadillac Ly...
Rivian About to Make a Crucial Decision to Solve Its Big Problem
It is an understatement to say that Rivian is going through a tough period. The young electric-vehicle manufacturer has just poured cold water on investors’ hopes by announcing a pessimistic ou...
GE Builds 350-Ton Turbines at Its Power Facilities. Here’s What We Found on a Tour.
Text size 7HA.03 gas turbine in GE’s Greenville, S.C., factory. Courtesy GE Power General Electric led a tour of one of its South Carolina gas power facilities as part of its Investor Day on Thursday—...
A One-Stop, AI-Driven Manufacturing Marketplace
AI helps build a more efficient manufacturing ecosystem getty This column has long kept an eye on Xometry, the global on-demand manufacturing platform company based in Maryland. From the very beginnin...
Tesla’s China Sales Dropped. Tesla Stock Rose Anyway.
Text size Tesla delivered 56,515 vehicles from its Chinese plant in February. Sam Yeh /AFP via Getty Images Tesla sales from its plant in Shanghai fell in February from January, following the pattern ...
Moderna reaches preliminary agreement to build Covid vaccine manufacturing plant in Africa
A health official prepares a syringe with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine prior to administering it during a mass Covid-19 vaccination drive in Nairobi on September 17, 2021. Simon Maina | AFP | Getty Im...
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance To Invest $220 Million In Making An Electronic Manufacturing Hub
Mukesh Ambani attends the India Mobile Congress 2018 in New Delhi on October 25, 2018. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images A unit of Reliance Industries, controlled by tycoon Mukesh Ambani, said it wi...
Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 Faces Delays. It Might Not Be a Major Problem.
Text size A Boeing 737 MAX 10 airliner. Ellen Banner-Pool/Getty Images Boeing stock is lower Monday morning. The company’s regulatory woes might be creating another overhang in the shares. The new iss...