This Bolt is the Key to GM's High-Tech Assembly Line At a New York State factory where General Motors builds engines, a new kind of smart bolt collects data during manufacturing to help the ...

CARS.COM — GM has built its first batch of 130 self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EVs at its Orion, Mich., assembly plant. The automaker is taking a bow for being, GM says, the first company to use ...

Inside the head of GM’s “data bolt” is an RFID memory tag and a coiled antenna. The brainy bolts are installed on each engine block and cylinder head at the beginning of the machining process.

The General Motors Tonawanda Engine plant in Tonawanda, N.Y. recently went under a $400 million renovation to build the new line of six and eight cylinder engines – including the LT1 small block ...

He said, "The assembly line's changed a lot in a hundred years, but it's still an assembly line. And that, to me, is really remarkable." The proof of that can be seen in car, after car, after car.

General Motors didn't have to construct an all-new assembly plant to build its affordable, mass-market Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car. In fact, it produces the electric car at the existing Orion ...

General Motors has started making Bolt hatchbacks on a slow assembly line at a factory in Orion Township, Michigan. IHS predicts that GM will sell just under 30,000 Bolts in the first year, ...

An assembly line is a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence.

EV startup Arrival thinks it can crank up profit margins for cars by trashing the assembly line and building pop-up factories. Industry experts say the plan may be hard to pull off.