Cars

Tesla Inc.’s trial before a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge began with a lawyer for the electric-car maker accusing the United Auto Workers of waging a smear campaign on its CEO, Elon Musk. […]

WASHINGTON — Automakers want states with zero-emission vehicle sales targets to put more resources behind the clean-air mandates. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has written nine governors whose states follow California’s ZEV program asking for […]

Audi CEO Rupert Stadler’s apartment was searched. FRANKFURT — German prosecutors on Monday said they have widened an emissions cheating probe against Volkswagen Group’s luxury car brand Audi to include CEO Rupert Stadler among the […]

Mary Nichols, chairman of California Air Resources Board: “Maybe in the first time in recorded history, California and the auto industry are mostly in agreement that standards on the books actually should be on the […]

“For a long time, the business model has been stack ’em high and sell ’em cheap,” Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer said. “But profitless volume is no way to build a sustainable company.” TURIN — […]

Barra: “Taking decisive actions” DETROIT — What does General Motors need to do to get into Wall Street’s good graces? It’s a question that has plagued the automaker since its post-bankruptcy initial public offering in […]

A Jeep Compass at the Guangzhou auto show in Nov. 2016. Photo credit: BLOOMBERG MILAN — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will offer more vehicles tailored to China and speed up electrification to relaunch the group in […]

With GM’s Super Cruise, drivers don’t have to hold the steering wheel or touch it periodically. DETROIT — Autopilot. The name connotes a futuristic vision, the automotive equivalent of soaring carefree through open skies. Contrast […]

For 2019, Volkswagen has made the Jetta more competitive with segment stalwarts like the new Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla. The German entry offers a new 1.4-liter engine, a more spacious cabin, and the same […]

Ford is test driving its future business forays in Miami, where it has self-driving Fusion sedans buzzing around the streets ferrying people, packages and pizza. General Motors Co. and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo rocked the auto […]