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The Automobile industry, 1920–1980 (1989) online; Minchin, Timothy J. America's Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States (University of Georgia Press, 2021) Rae, John B. The American automobile industry (1984), short scholarly survey online; Rae, John B. The road and the car in American life ...
Between 1922 and 1925, the number of US passenger car builders decreased from 175 to 70. H. A. Tarantous, managing editor of "MoToR Member Society of Automotive Engineers", in a New York Times article from 1925, suggested many were unable to raise production and cope with falling prices (due to assembly line production), especially for low ...
This is a list of automobiles produced for the general public in the North American market. They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year
The end of World War I saw the rise in the economic power of the United States due to its active trade, growing industry, and support of the Allied nations in the war. Its supplying of agricultural and manufactured goods to the Allied nations greatly boosted its economy, while the economies of Germany, France, and Great Britain suffered from major decreases in export trade activity and from ...
This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents the start date of the whole brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of appearance of the main (perhaps only) model that was produced.
By 1960, one-sixth of working Americans were employed directly or indirectly by the industry, but automation and imports eroded the need for such a large workforce within a couple of decades. The 1950s were the pinnacle of American automotive manufacturing and helped shape the United States into an economic superpower. [3]
1960s – alternators replace generators on automobile engines. [22] 1970s – electronically controlled ignition appears in automobile engines. 1975 – Catalytic converters are first widely introduced on production automobiles in the US to comply with tightening EPA regulations on auto exhaust.
That same year, Nu-Way Industries showed an experimental electric car with a one-piece plastic body that was to begin production in early 1960. [60] In the mid-1960s a few battery-electric concept cars appeared, such as the Scottish Aviation Scamp (1965), [62] and an electric version of General Motors gasoline car, the Electrovair (1966). [63]