Lindsay Chappell

Despite COVID-19, chip shortages, a war and other supply chain crises, automakers delivered a wave of vehicles to showrooms since last fall. And most of them are significant offerings.

Envision AESC was one of the industry's first EV battery producers. Now it's committing $2 billion to boost its U.S. market presence.

Japan's Envision AESC will invest $2 billion to build a battery-cell and module plant in Kentucky to supply Mercedes-Benz and multiple other automakers.

Auto factories in North America and Europe continue to rack up more lost production because of the lingering global microchip shortage, now well into its second year.

Auto retailers are in an era of anxiety over the transition to electric vehicles. But automakers get that.

Why the big rush to build EV factories? Because there's no time to shilly-shally.

Novelis' planned U.S. aluminum recycling center will take on new issues, from carbon reduction to advanced sorting technologies.

The industry is settling into the new year acknowledging that it's not out of the woods yet on chip shortage disruptions.

The auto industry didn't just get a break on vaccines from the Supreme Court — it got handed a problem it doesn't want to face.

Factories in China and North America have begun to encounter production problems with chips again already this year.

The auto industry just went through a year of challenges and hairpin turns. But through it all, innovators delivered some clever new ideas.

If auto factory investments were hobbled in 2020, 2021 could be called the year when automakers made up for lost time.

Automakers are still shaving back production plans due to semiconductor shortages, but the worst-case scenario for North America just got a tiny bit better.

It's an undertaking that will change the landscape of the area, says one of the economic development leaders who helped the automaker launch the project.