The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) MBS 2026 roundtable series convened automotive leaders from the U.S. and Canada to discuss one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: how tariffs are redefining manufacturing, supply chains, and the future of North...
Michigan Automotive Workforce Needs Assessment Part F Interim Report As the automotive industry navigates transformative shifts in manufacturing, propulsion technologies, and increasing vehicle complexity, it is essential to assess how these changes are redefining...
Smart Manufacturing in Automotive: Deployment and Impact The automotive industry is entering a new phase of AI/machine learning (ML) and automation. The question for manufacturers serving the automotive, tire, and battery markets is no longer whether to adopt, but how...
CAR developed a tariff modeling framework for AAPC to assess the impacts of initially proposed tariffs on automobiles and auto parts. The analysis combined unique top-down and bottom-up approaches to estimate cost exposure across the industry, enabling detailed...
As the automotive industry undergoes shifts as a result of changing propulsion technologies including electric vehicles, it is key to examine opportunities for businesses to understand potential strategic pathways to expand or diversify their product and service...
In 2025, CAR conducted a comprehensive plant risk analysis covering vehicle assembly plants, propulsion facilities (engines and transmissions), and light-vehicle battery cell plants (existing and planned). Building on more than a decade of risk-scoring and...
As domestic semiconductor fabrication capacity expands, it is essential to identify oportunities for the broader industrial base to its diversify products and services to support sustained industry growth. In 2025, CAR conducted an assessment of Michigan’s...
Connected vehicle or vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology is designed to enable vehicles to communicate with one another, along with surrounding infrastructure, pedestrians, and other road users. V2X technology is critical for reducing crashes, improving safety, and...
