Group: Big 3 lagging on fuel economy
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Despite losing sales to Japanese car companies, auto manufacturers, particularly U.S.-based manufacturers, have been slow to respond consumer demands for better fuel economy, according to a report released Tuesday by the Consumer Federation of America.
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Detroit&#39;s Big Three automakers are  &quot;posturing&quot; when they say they need a $30 reduction in hourly  wages and benefits as they try to return to profitability, the  United Auto Workers union president said on Friday.
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China is falling short of its goals in a campaign to boost energy efficiency in its fuel-guzzling economy &#151; the world's No. 2 oil consumer &#151; but is starting to make progress, the government said Thursday.
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Business & money: Gordon Brown expresses concern over the impact of rising fuel bills
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Corporate America is gun-shy about  making significant spending increases in 2005, as high fuel  costs, geopolitical concerns and memories of recent  overspending loom over budget plans for next year.
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The electric-power industry in the mid-Atlantic region and other parts of the nation is not keeping up with long-term demand, the industry's reliability organization warned yesterday in its annual assessment.
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Lagging sales and lower-to-flat net vehicle pricing has General Motors Corp. searching for ways to trim costs, but the world&#39;s largest automaker doesn&#39;t expect drastic operational changes
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Major automakers believe stricter fuel economy standards for passenger cars are inevitable, but they want the Transportation Department -- not Congress -- to set the goal, the industry's lead U.S. trade group said on Friday.
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Japanâs third-largest automaker blamed rising commodity costs and slower sales for the worse-than-expected results.
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Britain's industrial sector appears to have been a bigger drag on overall economic growth in the third quarter than was first assumed.
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Business & money: Industry reluctant to make the ultimate sacrifice of speed and acceleration.
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The world&#39;s biggest automakers, GM and Toyota, have taken different routes so far to developing cleaner vehicles but agree there is no one way to achieving lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
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High gasoline prices not only slowed fuel demand growth and cut sales of gas-guzzling vehicles in 2005, they also prompted Americans to drive less for the first time in 25 years, a consulting group said in a report Thursday.
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The vote, 65 to 27, was a major defeat for Detroitâs Big Three carmakers, which had fought for a much smaller increase in fuel economy standards.
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Who says alternative-fuel cars have to be wimpy? Here's where mph and mpg collide -- these speedsters lose the bark of gasoline engines and sharpen the bite.
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The General Motors Corporation said Thursday that high fuel prices and declining consumer confidence would be a drag on sales this year in the United States.
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Some people are whining that the newly adopted 35-mpg fuel-economy standard will kill the muscle car. Don't bet on it. Meeting an average doesn't mean every car has to be average.