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China’s rising automakers will go head-to-head in their home market with Europe’s top brands at this year’s Shanghai auto show, which once more becomes a major event in the auto calendar after being upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Germany’s Volkswagen Group is sending CEO Oliver Blume, along with the head of its VW brand, Thomas

MILAN — Maserati will debut the Grecale Folgore, the battery-electric version of the Grecale midsize SUV, at the Shanghai auto show on Tuesday. The Grecale Folgore will be Maserati’s second all-electric model after the GranTurismo Folgore large coupe that was unveiled in October ahead of the car arriving in dealerships at the end of this

SHANGHAI — China’s Zeekr brand has hired a former Lexus executive to helm its operations in Europe, as the electric vehicle maker owned by Geely plans to enter the market later this year. Spiros Fotinos, who spent 24 years with Toyota Motor and led the brand management of Lexus globally, joined Zeekr in September as

On June 13 and 14 in Paris, the annual Automotive News Europe Congress will host a series of top-level presentations, speakers and panel discussions on the theme of Making Sustainability Profitable. Speakers will include experts and executives from Renault, Toyota, Polestar, Ford, Hyundai and more. Join us in Paris to be part of the discussion about

BERLIN — Volkswagen called for the implementation of new EU emissions standards to be pushed to at least autumn of 2026, slightly over a year later than planned, with the aim of all new cars meeting the standards by autumn 2027. VW could meet this timeline provided the law comes into force in mid-2024, giving

Mercedes-Benz Group sales rose moderately in the first quarter of this year, boosted by electric vehicles and its most expensive cars. Global vehicle sales increased 3 percent to 503,500 vehicles, with Europe posting the strongest growth at 8 percent, Mercedes said in a statement on Wednesday. Sales of full-electric cars were the main growth driver,

Polestar will debut its first coupe-styled crossover at the Shanghai auto show this month. In Europe, the Polestar 4 premium midsize crossover will join a segment led by the Tesla Model Y. Last year the Audi E-tron, Q4 E-tron and BMW iX3 were also among the segment’s top 10-sellers, according to figures from market researcher

On June 13 and 14 in Paris, the annual Automotive News Europe Congress will host a series of top-level presentations, speakers and panel discussions on the theme of Making Sustainability Profitable. Speakers will include experts and executives from Renault, Toyota, Polestar, Ford, Hyundai and more. Join us in Paris to be part of the discussion about

ROME — Ferrari will use Samsung Display’s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panels in future models. The South Korean company will develop “bespoke OLED technology display solutions” for the next generation of Ferrari cars, the automaker’s CEO Benedetto Vigna said in a statement on Tuesday. No financial details were disclosed. Vigna has previously said that

As Bruce Qvale crossed a street in downtown Paris last month, a vehicle with a familiar octagonal badge caught his eye as it passed by. Says Qvale: “It’s a normal-looking crossover, but it’s got MG badges on the front and back.” His reaction: “That’s an MG?” In the 43 years since the last MGB roadster

Tesla Inc. assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”  But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately

TOKYO – New Toyota Motor Corp. CEO Koji Sato, warning that the industry is in a “life or death situation,” plans to turbocharge the company’s EV sales to 1.5 million vehicles in 2026 with the help of a newly developed platform and local production of a three-row full-electric crossover in North America. The new dedicated EV

Jaguar Land Rover expects free cash flow of around 500 million pounds ($622 million) for the full financial year. While that’s half the forecast of more than 1 billion pounds it gave back in 2022, it significantly exceeds a more recent estimate as supply chain snarls that dented business in the second quarter eased. JLR,

Volkswagen Group believes that electric-vehicle incentives put in place by President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will help the company more than double its share of the U.S. market. The German carmaker plans to sell 25 full-electric models in the U.S. by 2030, all of which should qualify for the maximum $7,500 in tax credits

SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla said it plans to expand the use of cheaper, iron-based batteries to a version of its Semi heavy electric trucks and an affordable electric vehicle. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has championed the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery technology dominated by Chinese suppliers, saying in March, “the vast majority of the heavy

The Citroen C3, a small crossover built in India and Brazil, was the only model from a European automaker to win a category at the 2023 Word Car of the Year awards, in an edition dominated by Hyundai and Kia. The New C3, as it is known in India, a completely different model from the

Jaguar Land Rover expects free cash flow of over 800 million pounds (about $1 billion) for the quarter ending March 31, boosted by a 24 percent rise in wholesale volumes as chip and other supply constraints eased, the luxury carmaker said on Thursday. Tata Motors, which acquired the UK automaker in 2008, had set a

It sounds inconceivable that Europe’s plan to usher in the age of electric vehicles almost went awry because of a prohibitively expensive technology that is virtually unavailable, but that is exactly what happened. For several weeks last month, Germany refused to back the European Union’s effective ban of new combustion-engine cars from 2035, demanding that