Ford is the last of the three Detroit automakers without a new four-year labor contract.
The $2.1 billion deal would leave Toyota and Honda as Japan's last major automakers without big foreign partners.
Congressional leaders expressed some support for the beleaguered Detroit automakers, without making specific promises.
Most automakers are reachable via e-mail, and we excluded from consideration automakers without published e-mail addresses.
The patents should provide modest help to other automakers without hurting Tesla, he said.
Supporting the automakers without insisting that they fundamentally change their approach to making vehicles, namely that they commit to making fuel-efficient cars, is more than just a missed opportunity, it's flat-out wrong.
Ford, the only American automaker to survive without bankruptcy and government aid, has been unusually quiet at the Detroit show so far.
Mr. King said he did not anticipate having to go to binding arbitration with either company, nor to resort to a strike at Ford, the only American automaker to survive without federal assistance.
It said a supplier had made a change to a part without the automaker's knowledge.
