Europe

Volvo CEO Jim Rowan has made sweeping changes to his leadership team, naming two deputy CEOs and moving four of the 11 executives off the automaker’s highest management tier, as Volvo gears up to become an electric-only brand by 2030. It is the biggest personnel move made thus far by Rowan, a former Dyson Group executive,

Volkswagen Group faces mounting pressure to address allegations of human rights violations in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where the German automaker operates a car factory. While there is no evidence that anyone has been mistreated at the VW plant, the company should carefully examine the accusations, said supervisory board members Joerg Hofmann, a labor

Manufacturers from Tesla to Volkswagen are pursuing self-driving cars. Ferrari is having none of it. The Italian supercar maker recently hosted a couple of artificial intelligence experts who wanted to pitch why Ferrari should embrace autonomous driving. CEO Benedetto Vigna instead invited them to take a spin in a Ferrari on the company’s Fiorano racetrack.

BERLIN — Audi has filed a lawsuit in a Munich court against Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio over an alleged infringement of the Volkswagen Group subsidiary’s trademark rights, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Thursday. Audi believes that Nio’s decision to name two of its models ES6 and ES8 infringes on Audi’s trademark for its S6

Volkswagen Group and its Porsche unit have agreed to a class-action settlement worth at least $80 million to resolve claims it skewed emissions and fuel economy data on 500,000 Porsche vehicles in the U.S., court documents show. The settlement, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, must be approved by a federal judge and

PARIS — The software-defined, connected car will fundamentally alter the relationship between automakers and their customers, Renault CEO Luca de Meo said, with opportunities to make the car better at the end of its life cycle than at the beginning. “I believe it will really change the experience of owning a vehicle,” de Meo said

The UK said it would scrap the last remaining subsidies for electric cars, saying the move would free up cash to expand the charging network and encourage sales of other battery-powered vehicles, such as vans, taxis and motorcycles. The £300 million ($349 million) grant-funding program has closed to new orders, the Department for Transport said.

Ford Motor is recalling 48,924 Mustang Mach-E crossovers in the U.S. following a safety defect that could cause the electric vehicle to lose power. In addition to the recall, Ford has issued a stop-sale on the Mach-E, according to a memo to dealers issued Monday. Under the new orders, retailers are not allowed to complete

PARIS — Valeo will supply Stellantis with its third-generation Scala lidar to enable SAE Level 3 autonomous driving in the automaker’s models, starting in 2024. Valeo and Stellantis did not offer financial details of the contract or on which cars will get the system, but said it would appear on “multiple models” across Stellantis’ brands. 

Russia will spend 30 billion rubles ($526 million) this year to boost domestic production of car parts and replace imports, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov told RBC TV on Monday. His comments to RBC were reported by Interfax. Russia’s top automaker AvtoVAZ resumed production of its best-selling Lada Granta model on June 8, after partially

The digital revolution is transforming every aspect of auto industry, and as one of the world’s biggest tech players, Google is among the companies that is driving this transition. Google’s automotive products include cloud services, Android operating systems, maps and advertising, among others. A key member of Google’s team in Europe is Christian Richter, the

SEOUL — Production at Hyundai’s biggest factory complex fell by half on Thursday because of component shortages caused by a truckers’ strike in South Korea, a union official at the automaker said. The automaker’s Ulsan plants operated at about 50 percent to 60 percent of capacity due to parts procurement issues caused by the strike.

Russia’s Industry Ministry expects car sales to halve in 2022 as the country’s automobile industry grapples with supply issues, a senior official said. “We saw a sharp fall (in car sales) in April and May,” Tigran Parsadanyan, deputy head of the ministry’s automotive and railway engineering department, said on Thursday. “We expect that some 750,000

Ferrari plans to significantly expand its factory in northern Italy as part of the electrification strategy it will unveil during a highly anticipated briefing next week, according to people familiar with the matter. The automaker has snapped up space near its Maranello plant and started clearing the way for a third production line that will

Volkswagen Group will sell its first electric car, the ID4 SUV, in India in limited quantities next year as the South Asian nation pushes for faster adoption of cleaner vehicles. The automaker will begin testing the ID4 around September for its technical capabilities and if any adaptations are needed for local weather conditions, Ashish Gupta,

LONDON — Jaguar has denied a report that it is ending production of the XE and XF in the UK, saying it intends to resume building the sedans at an unspecified date in the future. French auto analyst Inovev said Jaguar had ceased production of the sedans at its factory in Castle Bromwich, England, in

BERLIN — Volkswagen Group and Mercedes-Benz signaled that they consider the European Union’s plan to enforce a 100 percent reduction in passenger-car CO2 emissions by 2035 to be achievable. The regulation will have the effect of outlawing sales of new cars with internal-combustion engines in the bloc after that date. The European Parliament backed the

The hydrogen revolution is coming. Or is it? The clean-burning fuel has the potential to revolutionize road transport, offering zero emissions with the ability to refuel in minutes. But a lack of infrastructure and high costs have been barriers to implementation. Suppliers, automakers and startups are working on all aspects of the hydrogen fuel cell