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Mazda Toyota's Alabama Plant Builds Its One-Millionth Vehicle Five Years After Opening
The 50/50 joint venture builds the Corolla Cross and CX-50 side by side, and it marked the milestone with $120,000 in workforce-training grants.
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Toyota's Texas Truck Plant Tops 4,000 Workers, Sets 2029 Start for Tacoma Hiring
The Tundra and Sequoia plant has fully staffed its new axle factory, and hiring for the $3.6 billion line that brings Tacoma production from Mexico begins in 2029.
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Hyundai Puts $450 Million Into Alabama and Will Build the New Tucson There Before 2027
The roughly $450 million package also adds hybrid and EREV engine variants and tooling for a refreshed Santa Fe. Pricing and an on-sale date for the 2027 Tucson are unannounced.
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GM's Hybrid Pivot Gets a Factory: Lansing Plant That Builds Traverse Will Build Hybrids
GM will ready Lansing Delta Township, home of the Traverse, Acadia and Enclave, for hybrid production, backed by a restructured $500 million DOE grant. Models and timing are still unannounced.
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Inside Toyota's U.S. Plants: Rain Booths, Weld Ultrasounds and Medical-Grade CT Scans
From rain booths to medical-grade CT scanners, Toyota lists five checks its U.S. plants run. They catch build flaws, not the software faults behind its latest recalls.
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BMW's Factories Have Now Moved 1 Million Cars With Nobody Behind the Wheel
MINI's Oxford plant is the fourth BMW site where new cars drive themselves off the line, guided by sensors in the building rather than in the car. Spartanburg follows.
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Genesis Scans Every GV90 for 15-Micron Flaws and Wind-Tests Each One Before Delivery
The fourth installment of Genesis's GV90 engineering series moves to the factory floor. It shows a 72-percent-aluminum body, robotic inspection, and a roller-rig wind test for every SUV.
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Chinese Cars Are Headed for Canada. Here's Why They Still Won't Reach Your U.S. Dealer
Chery is weighing a Canadian plant and a Stellantis venture may ship China-built Jeeps north. Three scenarios, one table, and the three U.S. rules that stop each of them.
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Where Your Next Car Will Be Built: The Southern Auto Belt After Audi's $4 Billion Bet
Audi's Georgia plant joins Hyundai, Kia, Rivian, BMW, Volvo, Scout and a dozen more. We mapped all 19, and what the belt means for import prices.
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Audi Will Build SUVs in Georgia — Here's Why It Won't Help Buyers Until the 2030s
The $4 billion Peach County plant will build up to 200,000 SUVs a year, but Audi hasn't named a single model, and production won't start before the early 2030s.
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Volvo Is Losing Money in America. Its Fix Starts With a US-Built XC60
Tariffs, lost EV incentives, and a $111 million CAFE write-down hit Volvo's third quarter. Its US answer: XC60 production in South Carolina from early 2027.
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Chery Says It Can "Definitely" Sell a Car in America. Here Are the 5 Walls in Its Way
Chery says it can build a car that meets U.S. content rules and wants an American partner. Two of five barriers still look like hard stops.
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Mercedes Says AI Will Cut 17 Months From Developing a New Car
The new PLM.AI platform, built with CONTACT Software and Siemens, is meant to halve physical testing and get new models to market up to 30% sooner. Mercedes is putting roughly half a billion euros behind it.
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Hyundai and Kia Show the Factory Tech That’s Headed for Their Georgia Plants
E-FOREST TECH DAY 2026 opens in Uiwang with about 200 new manufacturing technologies, including an in-house 3D inspection tunnel Hyundai says will go to overseas plants — where humanoid robots are due in 2028.
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Rivian Hands Its Dead Batteries — and Factory Scrap — to Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials will now take Rivian’s production scrap and worn-out packs, sort them into grid storage or recycling, and keep building the 10 MWh battery farm at the Normal, Illinois plant.
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Toyota’s Kentucky Parts Hub Turns 25 — and Moves 400,000 Parts a Day
The Hebron facility that feeds Toyota and Lexus dealers across North America opened in 2001 with about 60 people. Today it employs 700 and sits at the center of a two-hub network.
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Scout Motors Lines Up Seven More Suppliers in South Carolina as Its 2028 Launch Nears
Stamping, mirrors, seals, and brake lines for the Traveler and Terra will come from Spartanburg, Duncan, and Piedmont — but the production clock is what buyers should watch.
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VinFast Wants to Sell Electric Buses in the US. First It Needs a US Factory
Certified deliveries are due in early 2028 through a bundled service deal with NexMove. Transit agencies spending federal money will need a US-built bus — and VinFast’s American plant is tied up in court.
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Before a New Toyota Gets Built, This Team Makes Sure It Fits the Paint Shop
Toyota profiled three engineers whose work happens long before a car reaches the line — and whose jobs U.S. manufacturers are finding harder to fill.
Analysis
Japan's Automakers Are Building More in America. What It Means for What You Pay
Toyota, Honda, Subaru, and Nissan are shifting production to U.S. plants to escape a 15% tariff. That protects their margins, but it won't lower sticker prices anytime soon.