Tesla CEO Elon Musk often refers to the automobile factory as "the machine that builds the machine," but there are plenty of human workers involved in even the most highly automated plants. They ...

How has making cars for big auto companies changed, in pay, labor, everyday life and technology? We hear from a former autoworker and a current one. For six days, autoworkers at three plants have been ...

With a rooster incorporated into the front windscreen, Renault said, the new Megane E-Tech Electric "proudly displays its French origins, made at the Douai factory (in northern France) in the ...

Work done by General Motors and NASA has led to the creation of robotic, grip- strengthening gloves that the space agency says could help both astronauts and assembly-line workers on the job. The ...

Robots in car factories are definitely a thing. And they have been for decades. But so are human workers. For some reason, maybe due to the upsurge in artificial intelligence hype or Elon Musk's ...

Tesla has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

FREMONT, Calif. — When Phil Verzola got home from work at 2 a.m., he woke up his wife to say his auto assembly line was about to shut down because of the West Coast port lockout. "Honey, we need to ...

India’s passenger vehicle manufacturer Maruti Suzuki has commissioned another assembly line at its Manesar facility in northern India. According to Maruti, the new line at the firm’s largest plant ...

A coin honoring Henry Ford’s innovative automotive assembly line will be released by the U.S. Mint this spring. The $1 American Innovation gold coin features the Statue of Liberty on the face and ...

Vehicle-manufacturing jobs grind down workers’ bodies. Is it time for a 32-hour week? Line workers work on the chassis of full-size General Motors pickup trucks at the Flint Assembly plant on June 12, ...

A new $1 coin for Michigan, recently released as part of a U.S. Mint series celebrating innovations from across the country, depicts autoworkers on the assembly line, a design that beat out competing ...