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Energy storage developer Our Next Energy said it plans to build a battery plant in the U.S. after raising $65 million in a new round of funding. The factory will be used to produce the company's Aries battery pack for four customers. Our…

HAMBURG -- Volkswagen expects to temporarily idle more plants, including its main Wolfsburg factory, as fallout from shortages of key parts from suppliers in Ukraine is spreading. The automaker said it would likely be unable to produce at…

TOKYO -- Toyota said it will restart domestic production on Wednesday, a day after all of its factories nationwide ground to a halt following a cyberattack at a parts supplier. Production lines will be switched back on at its 14 factories…

AMSTERDAM -- Stellantis has established two task forces to deal with the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of the task forces is monitoring sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its Western allies on Russia and how the automaker…

Kyiv: Electric vehicle company Tesla has started to offer free Supercharging in several countries around Ukraine for people fleeing the country following the Russian invasion. In an email to local owners, Tesla has…

Volvo Cars said it will suspend car shipments to the Russian market until further notice, becoming the first international carmaker to do so as sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine continue to bite. Volvo said the decision had been…

Volvo Cars said it will suspend car shipments to the Russian market until further notice, becoming the first international carmaker to do so as sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine continue to bite. Volvo said the decision had been…

A spokesperson at the supplier, Kojima Industries said it appeared to be some kind of cyberattack. A spokesperson from Toyota described it as a "supplier system failure." The incident might hurt Toyota's efforts to return to full…

TOKYO -- Toyota said it will suspend all domestic factory operations on Tuesday losing around 13,000 cars after one a company supplying plastic parts and electronic component was hit by a suspected cyberattack. No information was…

OK, OK: Profit-sharing didn't become part of the UAW contracts until the early '80s. It caused a split with the Canadian division, which broke off from the UAW to form the CAW. And for about three decades, payouts were rarely significant,…

Globalization of manufacturing makes perfect economic sense in a perfect world. However, the auto industry last week got yet another painful reminder of the vulnerabilities in an imperfect global logistics network when the Felicity Ace — a…

Q: Durr has been building vehicle paint lines for decades. Why do your customers suddenly want you to offer a new level of predictive data evaluation? Ostin: Part of it was that our customers want to run their plants 24 hours a day right…

Like other automotive aluminum suppliers, Novelis Inc. is forecasting booming demand to support the wave of electric vehicles coming in this decade. But to deliver enough new North American aluminum capacity, the industry will also need to…

Buzz Aldrin is one of only 12 humans to have walked on the moon. These days, getting a vehicle built and delivered in a timely fashion is nearly as impressive a feat. Aldrin, the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew, ordered a 2022…

"We absolutely see SG&A (selling, general and administrative) synergies across the two businesses so that the combined business will be smaller than the two as they are today — but how, which combination thereof, it's too early," Davis…

Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya took to Instagram and posted a picture of his son Agastya driving a toy car next to Mercedes-AMG G63 SUV. Pandya wrote, "the forever love for the cars continues," in the caption.…

The future EVs sport a modern interpretation of Volvo's signature Thor's Hammer lighting design. The battery pack in the next-generation EVs will sit under the flat floor, letting designers extend the wheelbase and create more interior…

Volvo Cars unveiled an ambitious product road map at its annual dealer meeting on Wednesday as the Swedish automaker accelerates toward an all-electric future. At the conference in Miami, attended by about 800 Volvo retailers from across…

So, what is the recourse for clients expecting these cars? Technically the vehicles do not yet belong to the customers until delivery, they still belong to the automaker, so personal automotive insurance will not have kicked in. Commercial…

Unifor Local 444, which represents workers at the factory, said in its own statement at that time the change was to take place on April 17. Stellantis on Thursday said it “can confirm that the shift elimination timing has been extended…

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal Service has finalized a contract to replace its mail-truck fleet with almost all gasoline-powered models, drawing an angry response from Biden administration officials who unsuccessfully pushed the agency to…

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, on a day when his company reported $15.2 billion in 2021 profits, said absenteeism at U.S. factories outpaces the rest of the world. The UAW didn't appreciate his comments and defended its members on…

Eligible UAW Stellantis workers will get up to $14,670 in profit-sharing this year, the largest amount in 35 years. The union said it fought for an enhanced payout during the 2019 collective bargaining process. The formula increased to…

San Francisco: Car maker Audi of America has announced that it is teaming up with communication technology company Verizon to add 5G connectivity to its vehicle lineup, estimated to begin with select models for the…

Maruti Suzuki has officially launched the 2022 Baleno today in India at Rs 6.35 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi) for the entry-level Sigma variant. The new Baleno is claimed to be a technologically advanced premium…

BERLIN -- Mercedes-Benz expects to have factories exclusively producing electric vehicles by the second half of the decade but will steer clear of building EV-only plants, instead keeping production lines flexible to match market demand.…

A new joint venture between Magna International Inc. and LAN Manufacturing Group LLC plans to open a seating plant at the former site of Sakthi Automotive Group in southwest Detroit and create 390 jobs. Magna, a Canadian automotive supply…

Driveshaft supplier Dana Inc. is aiming to open a $9 million electric vehicle tech center in Novi, MI where it plans to add up to 150 engineers and supporting positions. The Maumee, Ohio-based manufacturer plans to upfit and customize new…

The new Maruti Suzuki Baleno will go official in India this week on February 23, 2022. India's leading automaker by volume will be announcing the prices for the updated Baleno during a virtual launch event. The…

BERLIN -- Volkswagen Group is in advanced discussions with Porsche Automobil Holding SE, the group's largest shareholder, about a potential IPO of the sports car brand and the two have negotiated a framework agreement as the basis for…