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Having spent the past eight years working alongside Dias and other union leaders on a range of significant contracts, Scott Doherty, executive assistant to the national president, said he brings the leadership, administrative and…

On Friday, May 13, VW of America sales and marketing head Andrew Savvas sent a letter to the brand's 650 dealers, confirming that Scout will be an independent brand within VW Group and that they will have no claim on its products. The…

On Friday, May 13, VW of America sales and marketing head Andrew Savvas sent a letter to the brand's 650 dealers, confirming that Scout will be an independent brand within VW Group and that they will have no claim on its products. The…

MEXICO CITY - General Motors has agreed a 8.5 percent wage hike with the new, independent union at its pick-up truck plant in the central Mexican city of Silao, labor representatives said on Thursday, one of the highest recent raises in…

Lithium ion battery recycling firm Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. said it received its previously announced $50 million investment from General Motors battery suppliers LG Chem and LG Energy Solution. The investment, which was announced in…

Problems on top of problems have complicated life for automakers and retailers. The great COVID-19 pandemic overturned business plans in early 2020, sent work forces and suppliers fleeing to safety for a year, overturned semiconductor…

New Delhi: In yet another tragic incident involving Ola Electric's controversial 'reverse mode', a 65-year-old man in Jodhpur suffered serious injuries after the Ola e-scooter unexpectedly went into a reverse mode…

Problems on top of problems have complicated life for automakers and retailers. The great COVID-19 pandemic overturned business plans in early 2020, sent work forces and suppliers fleeing to safety for a year, overturned semiconductor…

BMW will sign contracts with suppliers for the first vehicles on the platform by the end of the year. Contracts will be awarded “taking into account CO2 emissions and the percentage of secondary material as criteria for selecting…

The advance brings Nissan closer to achieving CEO Makoto Uchida’s goal of delivering a sustainable 5 percent operating profit margin. The automaker’s margin finished at 2.9 percent in the 12-month period to March 31, beating Uchida’s…

The advance brings Nissan closer to achieving CEO Makoto Uchida’s goal of delivering a sustainable 5 percent operating profit margin. The automaker’s margin finished at 2.9 percent in the 12-month period to March 31, beating Uchida’s…

Unlike the Solterra, the EVs produced in the latter half of this decade will be manufactured directly by Subaru. The Solterra, which shares a Toyota-developed EV platform with the Toyota bZ4X, is made at Toyota’s Motomachi assembly plant…

Taiwan's Foxconn, best known as the manufacturer of the iPhone, is now in the car manufacturing business. Lordstown Motors on Wednesday said the $230 million deal announced in the fall to sell its sprawling 6.2 million-square-foot plant to…

MEXICO CITY - General Motors and a new independent union at the U.S. automaker's biggest Mexican plant have reached a deal for a new workers' contract that includes raises and benefits above inflation, the union said on Wednesday.The…

Beijing: Elon Musk-run Tesla has once again halted production at its Gigafactory in Shanghai as the company is now facing logistics problems amid a fresh surge in Covid infections, the media reported. According to…

Tata Motors has officially launched the Nexon EV Max today in India starting at Rs 17.74 lakh(ex-showroom). The new Nexon EV MAX comes powered by high voltage state-of-the-art Ziptron technology. It comes in two…

San Francisco: Electric car-maker Tesla has recalled 130,000 cars to fix touchscreen issues caused by an overheating central processing unit (CPU). The Elon Musk-run company recently rolled out an over-the-air…

"The speed at which now everybody is building manufacturing capacity for batteries is possibly on the edge to be able to support the fast-changing markets in which we are operating," he said. Tavares said raw material supply could also…

Tesla this year opened its first European factory, near Berlin, challenging VW as well as peers BMW and Mercedes-Benz on their home turf, while Diess said he expected Tesla's ramp-up to be challenging. Diess said he still saw a chance that…

The person said that while the details of how the partnership would work had not yet been sorted completely, Geely might initially use Renault Korea's Busan plant to make electric robotaxis for Waymo, with which it has an existing supply…

Mercedes-Benz has officially launched the C-Class in India starting at Rs 55 Lakh (ex-showroom). Bookings for the vehicle had begun in the country ahead of the launch. The C-Class is one of Mercedes-Benz’s…

Karimnagar (Telangana): The battery of an electric two-wheeler exploded while it was being charged in Ramadugu mandal in Karimnagar district here, though no one was injured in the incident, police said on Monday. …

DETROIT — Bollinger Motors, the startup electric vehicle manufacturer in suburban Detroit that is trying to enter the red-hot commercial EV market, moved one step closer to its goal Monday. The company said it has inked a deal with Roush…

Electric vehicle startup Lordstown Motors Corp said Monday it needed $150 million in addition to the proceeds from its sale of assets to Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn to put its Endurance pickup truck into the hands of customers.…

SHANGHAI — A Chinese city opened an investigation into a factory owned by BYD over allegations that emissions from the plant are causing nosebleeds among children living nearby. Changsha city authorities said in a statement on Sunday it…

Stellantis COO Mark Stewart said the automaker is working with suppliers through the headwinds. "We continue to work on efficiency programs together of how to altogether get the costs out of the operations so everybody can be profitable…

Germany's Manager Magazin reported on Thursday that talks with McLaren were close to failing after months of negotiations. Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing, told reporters at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix that there was no question of any…

Zipse's comments highlight BMW's change in thinking at the automaker about the architecture, which originally had been planned to be fully electric but also underpin cars with gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines, including…

Automakers won't publicly talk about how long their vehicles should last. There are too many factors that affect longevity for them to give a precise answer — maintenance, where and how the vehicle is used and how it is stored all affect…

"I need to put this company through a full model change," Yoshida told Automotive News during a visit to Aisin's global headquarters here in the suburbs of Nagoya. "With a healthy sense of crisis, we must take steps forward." It's not the…