Obama Urged to Create National Electric Fuel Task Force
21 Jul 2010, 12:49 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A call for a National Electric Fuel Task Force has been sent to President Barack Obama in order to help accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and their infrastructure. The call is bei...
US - South Korea Free Trade Agreement Pleases AIAM
8 Jul 2010, 12:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The US government's wish to get the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea approved pleases the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM), who says such a development wo...
AIAM Supports New Fuel Efficiency Standards
24 May 2010, 09:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) expressed over the weekend their support for the new fuel efficiency and emissions standards announced by President Barack Obama. The...
Obama Announces New Fuel Efficiency Standards
23 May 2010, 13:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we told you on Friday, President Barack Obama announced new fuel consumption and emission standards to be applied to medium and heavy duty trucks. The new regulations, which will take effect for ...
US Preps 2017 Fuel and Emissions Standard
21 May 2010, 14:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the ink on the newly approved fuel consumption and emission standards still wet, President Barack Obama has reportedly asked the government to begin preparing fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas...
Obama Wanted Hybrid Limo. Secret Service Said: "Hmm... No."
8 Apr 2010, 10:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / What's the point, some might ask, of being a president, if you can't get what you want? After approving the spending of billions for the automotive industry bailout and an extra few more m...
Hybrid US Government Vehicle Fleet: 5,600 More
1 Apr 2010, 10:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The hunger for hybrid vehicles, as well as the need to set an example for fleet owners has made the US government order an extra 5,600 hybrid vehicles, thus doubling the number of such vehicles in u...
Smart Car Wash Owners Invited to Obama’s Speech
19 Feb 2010, 11:51 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The Americans seem very happy with the way they managed to deal with the recession. On Wednesday, President Obama held a one-year anniversary of the Economic Recovery Act speech. At this speech, the...
Obama Takes Action to Boost Biofuels
5 Feb 2010, 08:50 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It seems that the Americans decided to become energy independent, especially after seeing that oil is getting harder and harder to get. Action has been taken, as President Obama announced a series o...
100 GM Dealerships Might Get Reinstalled
7 Jan 2010, 15:17 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Ed Whitacre, General Motor Co’s chairman, said he is expecting around 100 GM dealerships to get restored due to the new arbitration federal law. “I think a large number will get rein...
Merkel Wants GM Opel Plan Fast
6 Nov 2009, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Taken a bit by surprise by the blunt announcement that "GM board decides to retain Opel," German chancellor Angela Merkel found herself with her hands tied. As it appears there's noth...
Bush Advises Obama to Exit Auto Industry
27 Oct 2009, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Former US President George W. Bush thought best to advise the Obama administration to exit, as soon as possible the automotive and banking industries by selling the state's stake in the bailed-...
Three-Wheeled Vehicles, Green Light for Funding
17 Oct 2009, 20:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The US Congress has passed a new piece of legislation allowing for manufacturers of three-wheeled vehicles to get funding for their projects. The bill is now waiting President’s Obama approval...
Ron Bloom, the New Manufacturing Tzar
8 Sep 2009, 07:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Obama administration appointed Treasury Department official, Ron Bloom, as the man in charge of the country's manufacturing sector "road to recovery". Bloom will also maintai...
CARS Crashes on Monday
21 Aug 2009, 08:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) is approaching its surprisingly fast demise, as the Obama administration will put an end to it on Monday, August 24 at 8 PM EDT. The program burned through all...
CARS Additional Funding Support Grows
4 Aug 2009, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite the wave of criticism these past few days, the support for the $2 billion boost for the Car Allowance Rebate System appears to be growing. Yesterday, the White House stepped up the pressure ...
US to Support CARS Until Senate Acts
3 Aug 2009, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The fears dealers have raised regarding the lack of funds for the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) to run successfully have been addressed on Sunday by US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who ...
US House Approves Dealer Resurrection
17 Jul 2009, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The battered US dealership network, severely damaged by the bankruptcy process through which two of the biggest carmakers in the US had to go through, received today a piece of good news, as the US ...
Obama to House: Pass the Greenhouse Bill
24 Jun 2009, 14:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Obama administration is continuing the overhaul of the American automotive industry, this time with yet another piece of legislation. President Obama asked the House of Representatives to move f...
GM Struggles to Meet Obama Plug-in Hybrid Goal
24 Jun 2009, 10:29 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors admitted that it will struggle to comply with President Obama's goal to have 1 million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles on the streets of the United States by 2015, a company...