Category: Motor Age Articles

The company plans to go public in a few years, a senior executive said.

Nissan will hold an extraordinary shareholders meeting to formally discharge its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, and name Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard as a director.

Ending alcohol- and drug-impaired driving was on the NTSB’s top-10 list of desired safety improvements for 2019-20.

The reduced number of Super Bowl car ads benefited the five brands that participated this year — Audi, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota.

A federal judge allowed a class-action lawsuit accusing Mercedes-Benz USA and Robert Bosch of diesel emissions cheating to proceed, denying motions by the defendants to dismiss the case.

The Trump administration and California clean-air officials remain “pretty far apart” in their bid to strike an agreement on automobile fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. EPA’s acting chief said.

Volkswagen unit Electrify America said it will install Tesla battery storage packs at more than 100 charging stations across the United States to keep costs down for drivers charging electric vehicles.

GM said a “vast majority” of the layoffs — expected to be roughly 4,000 people — will be implemented in the next two weeks on a staff-by-staff, location-by-location basis.

Tesla agreed to acquire battery technology company Maxwell Technologies for about $218 million in stock, as the electric car maker adds expertise in energy storage and power delivery.

Panasonic had a bright spot in an otherwise downbeat earnings report: its Tesla battery business.