Solar Panel Price Dip Helps Schools Save Big

Some California school districts will see multi-million-dollar energy savings thanks to solar power.

Sep 21, 2011

Competition from solar panel manufacturers in China has driven down the price of solar panels in America, making it possible for some schools to install the previously costly panels. Now, some California school districts will see multi-million-dollar energy savings thanks to solar power.

Facility Manager Sentenced to Prison for $20M Kickback Scheme

December 6, 2023

Norwegian Unions to Join Sweden in Tesla Tiff

December 6, 2023

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VW Audit Finds No Signs of Forced Labor at Plant in China

December 6, 2023

Nearly 200-Year-Old Gun Factory Shutting Down

December 5, 2023

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Facility Manager Sentenced to Prison for $20M Kickback Scheme

The 69-year-old defendant got 42 months for bad billing.

December 6, 2023

Norwegian Unions to Join Sweden in Tesla Tiff

The move sends "a clear signal to Tesla."

December 6, 2023

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VW Audit Finds No Signs of Forced Labor at Plant in China

The U.S. government has blocked imports from Xinjiang.

December 6, 2023

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Nearly 200-Year-Old Gun Factory Shutting Down

The news was not welcomed by local union officials.

December 5, 2023

Tyson Opens New Cooked Poultry Plant

The company said the Virginia facility is one of its most-automated to date.

December 5, 2023

TK Holdings Inc. headquarters is seen, June 25, 2017, in Auburn Hills, Mich.

U.S. Agency to Watch Unrecalled Takata Inflators

One of them recently exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver in Chicago.

December 5, 2023

Tesla vehicles line a parking lot at the company's Fremont, Calif., factory, on Sept. 18, 2023.

Tesla's Swedish Union Conflict Spreads to Denmark

Some speculated that Tesla would deliver its cars to Danish ports and transport them on trucks to Sweden.

December 5, 2023

Associated Press reporter Michael Liedtke sits in the back of a Cruise driverless taxi that picked him up in San Francisco's Mission District, Feb. 15, 2023.

GM's Cruise Robotaxi Service Faces Fine in Alleged Cover-Up

The service allegedly covered up the severity of an accident involving one of its driverless cars.

December 5, 2023

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Maintenance Error Leads to $1.2 Million Fire

On a 600-foot-long chemical tanker.

December 4, 2023

Driller Helper Chris Palmer, right, attaches a core sampling tube to a drilling rig at the Talon Metals Corporation drilling site, June 7, 2023, near Tamarack, Minn.

Nickel Ore Processing Plant That Will Supply Tesla Strikes Deal to Spend $115M in Federal Funds

The recent agreement was the result of over a year of negotiations.

December 4, 2023

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VW's Job Cuts; U.S. Steel Idles Facility; Tesla's Standoff in Sweden | Today in Manufacturing Ep. 147

Also on the podcast, handheld radio battery fire causes millions in damage, elevator drops 650 feet at platinum mine, Google's geothermal electricity project, autonomous excavator builds a big wall and U.S. EV sales set new record.

December 4, 2023

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Western Arms Companies Failed to Ramp Production in 2022 Due to Ukraine War

Labor shortages, soaring costs and supply chain disruptions have been exacerbated by Russia's invasion.

December 4, 2023

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U.S. Joins Other Nations in Swearing Off Coal Power

Coal power plants have already been shutting down across the nation due to economics.

December 4, 2023

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BMW Recalls SUVs After Takata Air Bag Inflator Blows Apart

It hurled shrapnel and injure a driver.

December 4, 2023

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Company Accused of Using Same Equipment to Make Hand Sanitizer, Brake Parts Cleaner

The company contends that the alleged issue was related to a "documentation error."

December 1, 2023