Daniel Howes

Whoever thinks consumers are driving the market for electric cars isn’t paying attention.Countries are driving it, and investors know it. The latest?…

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? In this case, the "old dog" is the Big Three automakers.Detroit News business columnist Daniel Howes thinks we're…

In the rhetorical battle between President Donald Trump and Ford Motor’s investors, the president is losing.The Blue Oval is moving American production of…

You may have missed the biggest news of the week – at least here in the Motor City. For the first time ever, Apple’s CEO confirmed the tech giant is hot…

It’s seldom politically correct in this town to say one of our automakers is lagging the competition. But there are exceptions — and right now Ford Motor…

The automakers who'll survive and thrive in the 21st Century are the ones making the biggest strides in mobility and connectivity – the keys to the…

The party’s over on Mackinac Island.If that’s what you insist on calling the Detroit Chamber’s annual policy conference on this island frozen in time —…

Nine years after Ford Motor recruited an outsider to save it from itself, the automaker’s doing it again.This time, the savior is more familiar. It’s Jim…

Slumping stock was the undoing of Mark Fields as CEO of Ford Motor Company.Detroit News business columnist Daniel Howes said Fields’ successor Jim Hackett…

Another week in the Motor City and you get buyouts at Ford Motor and news of General Motors bolting yet two more foreign markets. What’s going on…