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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…

The overall global tally was the second-highest annual result for Lexus and came despite tight inventories triggered by the global semiconductor shortage. The 2021 finish could not quite match Lexus' all-time sales record of 765,330 units…

During the Union Budget 2022, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government will introduce a battery swapping policy to promote the sales of electric vehicles in the country. The Battery Swapping…

Jaguar Land Rover swung to a quarterly loss as global semiconductor shortages continued to hit sales. The UK automaker reported a 9 million pounds ($12 million) loss before tax for the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with a profit of 439…

Ford designed the 2022 Bronco Raptor to be big. Too big, it turned out, for the assembly line. The ultra-rugged version of the off-road SUV, set to go on sale this summer, has 14 inches of suspension travel in the rear, the same as the…

"There should no longer be doubt about the viability and profitability of electric vehicles," Tesla said in its earnings report, citing data that it had achieved higher operating margins than global automakers that rely on internal…

The other piece of GM's EV puzzle is its battery plants. GM and its Ultium Cells joint venture partner, LG Energy Solution, are spending $2.6 billion to build a battery plant in Lansing, Mich., their third in the U.S. Ultium Cells has…

TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Motors Corp. quickened the pace of recovery in the latest quarter, bouncing back to profitability on higher sales and lifting its full-year earnings outlook. The Japanese automaker booked operating profit of 30.7…

The agency kept in place the averaging, banking and trading program, a compliance flexibility that dictates how credits can be generated and used. Since 2016, automakers collectively have failed to meet the EPA's tailpipe standards, and,…

TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Motors Corp. quickened the pace of recovery in the latest quarter, bouncing back to profitability on higher sales and lifting its full-year earnings outlook. The Japanese automaker booked operating profit of 30.7…

The Society of Automotive Analysts holds its annual Outlook conference each January to look ahead at the new year. Does the start of a third year of a pandemic and a second year of the microchip shortage have you feeling overwhelmed? You…

Mazda last assembled vehicles in the U.S. a decade ago with then-partner Ford Motor Co. in Flat Rock, Mich. Mazda ended production of the Mazda6 sedan at the plant in 2012 amid weak sales and red ink from its North American operations. The…