DETROIT - The US luxury automaker just hit another homerun – the 2025 Cadillac Escalade acts like a mid-cycle refresh but feels like it's got everything new. Of course, after seeing the all-electric Escalade IQ bring ample changes, everyone knew it was coming. Hot on the heels of the 2025 CT5 sedan plus the refreshed
NOVI–ITC Holdings Corp., the electric grid operator, announced the promotion of Krista Tanner to president and Simon Whitelocke to senior vice president and chief business officer of ITC Holdings. Whitelocke will remain president of ITC Michigan. The company said Linda Apsey will remain in her role of chief executive officer, ITC Holdings Corp. All organizational
STAMFORD, Conn. — Worldwide PC shipments totaled 60.6 million units in the second quarter of 2024, a 1.9% increase from the second quarter of 2023, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This marks three consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth for the PC market. “The low year-on-year growth, together with stabilized sequential growth, indicates that
DETROIT - The Biden administration on Thursday announced more than $1 billion in grants to help retool or reopen 11 auto plants — including more than $650 million for two factories in Michigan — as they transition toward making electric vehicles. The list of plants in Michigan includes General Motors' Lansing Grand River Assembly, which
TROY–Today’s mass market electric vehicles average 181 problems per 100 vehicles, according to the 2024 initial quality study of new vehicles from the Troy customer experience firm J.D. Power. Meanwhile, EV premium brands—often including more complicated systems and thus more reliance on connectivity—average 232 problems per 100. A lower score reflects higher vehicle quality. Both
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University has consolidated its research and economic development activities into a new division. The university's sponsored research effort has grown from less than $1 million a year a decade ago to nearly $10 million a year today, with research funding coming from both industry and government agencies like the National Science
DETROIT - Long-time auto expert Paul Eisenstein returns to MITechTV to provide the latest Detroit auto updates. Those include auto makers rethinking EV schedules, and also how to deal with the huge cost and labor savings held by Tesla and China's BYD, the world's lowest cost Electric Vehicle makers. Stellantis, the former Chrysler, looking at
PARIS - Oil demand has been on a rollercoaster ride over the last five years due to a global pandemic, wars, and other economic pressures. That’s happened against a backdrop of the U.S. ramping up shale production, countries tightly controlling how much oil is released, and the world transitioning to alternative energy sources. All these factors will culminate
SOUTHFIELD - The Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University announced an additional grant of $2 million from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation to strengthen its mission of supporting startups and small businesses in Southeast Michigan with their hardware and physical product innovations. This new funding will further strengthen Centrepolis’s Evergreen Service-Based Investment Fund, which
DETROIT - Vince Burlapp (aka vburlapp on social media or burlappcar.com) is a prolific virtual artist who loves to dream of all the latest models across the wide-ranging automotive realm – especially from Cadillac. This pixel master has a veritable passion for the American luxury brand. Truth be told, we understand why. After all, the
