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Volvo's 2.3 million-square-foot assembly plant in Ridgeville, S.C., an hour northwest of Charleston, will be the first factory to build the automaker's next-generation battery-electric vehicles, Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson told…

Since the creation of Stellantis, Alfa Romeo has been using BMW as a benchmark, Alfa Romeo CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato told Automotive News Europe. The Tonale's main rival is the BMW X1, which also has gasoline, diesel and plug-in hybrid…

Sculptured design Fermer, who returned to Volvo in 2018 after nearly three years working at Apple as a senior product design engineer, said that using megacasting will let Volvo "sculpture the design tighter around the chassis, powertrain…

TOKYO -- Hyundai Motor Co. is a global success from Bangalore to Baltimore, but there is one market right next door where the company's badge has long been missing: Japan. The South Korean automaker pulled out of the market in 2009, after…

Maruti Suzuki has started accepting the bookings for the 2022 Baleno in India. The carmaker is said to announce the pricing of the new Baleno on February 23. Interested customers can book their 2022 Baleno by paying…

TOKYO -- Nissan Motor Co.'s operating profit nearly doubled in the latest quarter as cost controls, better pricing power and lower incentives bolstered results despite the ongoing semiconductor crisis, prompting the automaker to lift its…

New Delhi, February 8: South Korean auto major Hyundai Motor Company on Tuesday regretted the offense caused to Indians by "unauthorised Kashmir-related social media posts" by its distributor in Pakistan and said…

Cristiano Ronaldo received a very special present on his birthday and it was a Cadillac Escalade, gifted to him by none other than his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez. The Portugal star was elated to have received the…

TOKYO -- Subaru profits plunged by two-thirds in the latest quarter as crimped production and falling sales hammered results, driving backorders higher and forcing the automaker to cut its earnings outlook with no clear signs of relief…

Classic Minis can go electric through a new program from the British brand. The program, called Mini Recharged, is available to owners of cars from the pre-BMW era, beginning in 1959. Workers at the factory in Oxford, England, remove a…

New Delhi, February 7: The retail sales of automobile companies in India decreased by 10.70 percent in January 2022 as against January 2021, informed the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA). FADA is…

When Rally Auto Group sought to sell the assets of its Palmdale, Calif., Kia dealership last fall, Kia America said no — twice citing the omission from the prospective buyer's application of his "previous unsatisfactory ownership" of…

Car companies are spending tens of billions of dollars getting their lineups ready, but EV sales have a long way to go.

Car maker Hyundai landed in a soup for  controversial social media post by Hyundai Pakistan supporting  "Kashmir Solidarity Day" observed by Pakistan on February 5. Netzines in India slammed Hyundai for its…

SAN FRANCISCO — Ford Motor Co. plans to suspend or cut production at eight assembly plants in the U.S., Mexico and Canada throughout next week because of microchip supply constraints, a spokeswoman said. The plants produce some of Ford's…

New Delhi, February 4: American electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla Inc is welcome to India if they commit to local manufacturing, assembling, and sourcing norms, a senior finance ministry official said…

Leading automotive chipmakers, however, were less sanguine. Infineon said on Thursday that the supply-demand imbalance would improve for some chips in the second half of this year, but that the market for mature chips — crucial to…

Audi, which produces around 1.8 million cars a year, operates four plants in China that make about 600,000 vehicles annually as well as roughly 270,000 gearboxes. Its main location is in Changchun in Jilin province in northern China. As…

India turned down a demand of Elon Musk’s Tesla for tax breaks to import EVs, saying rules already allow bringing in partially-built vehicles and assembling them locally at a lower levy. “We looked at whether the duties need to be…

San Francisco: Apple has patented a new kind of sunroof technology for it's upcoming car where the driver will have the ability to control the transparency, allowing them to let sunlight into the car without opening…

Few components have more potential effects on jobs than electric motors. Overall, an electric vehicle can have 50 percent fewer parts than a combustion vehicle, and require 30 percent less labor. That difference is particularly acute for…

MILAN -- Ferrari delivered a record number of cars last year as demand for luxury vehicles surged globally despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the sports carmaker predicted an increase in its core earnings for 2022. Shipments grew 22 percent…

With the speed of the SPAC process comes the downside of some added risk, according to Erik Gordon a finance professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Gordon, who has a focus in public market activity among other…

An independent labor union supported by international activists has won a vote to represent workers at a General Motors' pickup-truck plant in the central Mexican city of Silao, Mexico's federal labor center said on Thursday. The union,…

Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, has officially launched the Q7 facelift in India today at a starting price of Rs 79.99 lakh (ex-showroom). The Audi Q7 has been an icon of the Q-range for several years and…

Volvo's China sales declined 24 percent to 14,629 in January as part of a wider global decline in volume at the company. Volvo Car's global sales fell 20 percent to 47,561 in January under pressure from the global component shortage,…

As part of the agreement, Mercedes designers would style future Smart vehicles and Geely would engineer them. With production based in China, the venture would aim to extend its portfolio of pure premium electric and connected vehicles.…

Jaguar Land Rover will get a 500 million pound ($670 million) state-backed loan to support the automaker in its shift to building electric vehicles. The five-year loan will help to boost JLR’s research, development and export of…

Smart Automobile Co, a joint venture between Germany’s Mercedes-Benz and China’s biggest private carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., is considering raising funds as part of its plans to promote the minicar as an all-electric brand,…

Global retail sales climbed 12 percent to 245,000 vehicles in the quarter, driven by robust demand in North America and Southeast Asia, despite tepid deliveries in Japan and Europe. Revenue increased 39 percent to 525.5 billion yen ($4.57…