General Motors said it had asked its main Chinese supplier to find an alternative source of components after an explosion ripped through a factory on Saturday killing 71 people.
The accident at the Zhongrong Metal Products plant in Kunshan city in the eastern province of Jiangsu was China’s worst industrial accident in a year.
French supplier Valeo has developed an electric turbocharger that it says eliminates “turbo lag.” The new turbocharger is powered by an electric motor instead of exhaust gases.
By SCOTT SONNER
A sprawling industrial park near Reno where wild mustangs roam among the sagebrush has become the focus of the secretive site selection process for Tesla’s $5 billion battery factory, but the groundwork taking place is no guarantee the plant and its 6,500 jobs are coming.
Continental Motors introduced the CD-300, its new V-6 diesel engine, at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this week. The CD-300 was flown for the first time in July at Continental’s German development center in Altenburg onboard an Cirrus airframe. The company said that the flying test-bed exhibited rates of climb and cruise performance that exceeded engineer’s expectations.
A fund set up by General Motors to pay for deaths and injuries caused by its vehicles with faulty ignitions is accepting claims.
The five-month filing period that began Friday is part of the fallout from General Motors’ recall of 2.6 million small cars beginning in February.
