% All automakers are restarting. Tesla's problem is they are located in a quixotic county that does not care that people NEED to pay their bills, and that other counties are moving forward. Anti-Musk'rs should not dis/bash him for NOT-being stoic, and him using the media to achieve his business goals (or it could be his newborn child has him lack-of-sleep cranky, etc. https://www.google.com/search?q=musk+newborn ). %
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/covid-19-lockdown-us-auto-industry-workers-coronavirus-12723608 US auto industry workers return to jobs ... 12 May 2020 [image] A newly-reopened Mini dealership is seen, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson DETROIT: Factory workers began returning to assembly lines in Michigan on Monday (May 11), paving the way to reopen the US auto sector but stoking fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections as strict lockdowns are eased across the country. With millions of Americans out of work and much of the economy at a virtual standstill, a growing number of states are relaxing tough restrictions on commerce and social life put in place to slow the outbreak. Some auto suppliers in Michigan, a Midwest industrial powerhouse hard hit by the pandemic and its economic fallout, reopened plants on Monday with skeleton crews to get ready for a resumption of vehicle production next week. Skilled-trades workers and salaried employees also began returning to auto assembly plants to prepare for the wider restart. "We're starting up our foundry this week in anticipation of the orders coming in next week," Joe Perkins, chief executive of Busche Performance Group, an engineering, casting and machining firm, said in a telephone interview. Factory workers will be issued face masks, checked for fever and required to submit health-screening questionnaires. "All of that's ready to go," Perkins said. "The big question is are people going to be buying cars and trucks." ... The manufacturing reopening approved last week by Governor Gretchen Whitmer was crucial not only to auto plants in Michigan but to vehicle production elsewhere because so many key parts suppliers are based in and around the automaking hub of Detroit. Detroit's Big Three automakers – General Motors, Ford Motor and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV - said last week they planned to restart production at North American plants on May 18. The target date was set after tacit approval from the powerful United Auto Workers union, which previously opposed a May restart as "too soon and too risky". [image] People wait outside a newly-reopened tire store, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Ford said it had adopted safety protocols from China, where car production resumed in late February, including personal protective garments on assembly lines, barriers separating employees clustered together and heavily sanitized work areas. Much is at stake. The auto sector accounts for 6 per cent of US economic output and employs more than 835,000 Americans ... California Governor Gavin Newsom had given the OK for manufacturing to reopen statewide on Friday, but Alameda County's more stringent lockdown orders barring factory operations for another week supersede Newsom's authority. Musk, who had threatened to move his plant to another state unless officials relented, said on Twitter that production resumed on Monday, adding he would join workers on the assembly line ... Ohio, another industrial state and key player in the US auto industry, reopened its manufacturing last week and said most retail shops could welcome customers back on Tuesday. Even New York, epicenter of the US crisis, was set to ease some rules, permitting certain low-risk activities like landscaping, tennis courts and drive-in theaters to reopen this weekend in rural areas. "We took the worst situation in the nation and changed the trajectory," Governor Andrew Cuomo said. Pressure to loosen business constraints has mounted under a rapidly deteriorating economic outlook. The pandemic has put more Americans out of work than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s, prompting Congress to pass trillions of dollars in emergency relief ... [© channelnewsasia.com] https://www.dallasnews.com/business/autos/2020/05/11/gm-arlington-prepping-to-restart-truck-suv-production-may-18/ GM Arlington prepping to restart truck, SUV production May 18 General Motors will soon implement nationwide coronavirus safety protocols developed, in part, at its Arlington assembly plant as it aims to restart vehicle ... 10 hours ago https://andoverleader.com/2020/05/10/ford-to-restart-factories-in-the-us-even-chicago/ Ford to restart factories in the US even Chicago Michigan Governor, Gretchen Whitmer announced that Ford Motor Co. will join the rest of the Detroit 3 in resuming most North American vehicle production on ... 1 day ago https://www.marketscreener.com/FIAT-CHRYSLER-AUTOMOBILES-18191992/news/Fiat-Chrysler-Automobiles-U-S-auto-industry-workers-return-to-jobs-amid-concerns-of-second-virus-30584999/ Fiat Chrysler Automobiles : US auto industry workers return to ... Fiat Chrysler Automobiles : U.S. auto industry workers return to jobs amid concerns of second virus wave ... 6 hrs https://www.metro.us/u-s-auto-industry-workers/ Michigan factories begin humming again as US lockdowns ease ... General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV – have said they plan to restart vehicle production ... 13 hours ago https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2020/04/30/2003735522 VW seeks to defy virus headwinds German auto giant Volkswagen AG (VW) yesterday said that it expects to defy the ... “Now we have started with a gradual ramp-up of our production,” ... 2 weeks ago ... https://foxbaltimore.com/news/coronavirus/with-masks-and-distancing-volkswagen-restarts-production With masks and distancing, Volkswagen restarts production At restart the plan was to make 50 cars per day, about a third of previous output ... look to ease some of the lockdown measures that have dealt a blow to the economy ... 2 weeks ago (+more) For EVLN EV-newswire posts view: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ https://mail-archive.com/ev@lists.evdl.org/maillist.html {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
