Which Chinese car brands are heading towards Europe?
While a few Chinese car brands have already made their way to Europe, the true influx of Chinese automakers is …
Volvo Cars to phase out gasoline vehicles by 2030 – will only produce EVs
Volvo Cars aims to become a leader in the fast-growing market for premium electric cars and plans to become a …
Largest battery factory in the world – Tesla wants billions from EU
Tesla wants tax money for the largest battery factory in the world. This news comes as a surprise to the …
Why the 32 billion euro diesel scandal also has its positive side
Five years ago, VW shook confidence in the German auto industry with the diesel scandal. But the shock was followed …
Daimler is hoping for the S-Class effect after losing billions
With the new Mercedes S-Class, Daimler finally wants to get out of the crisis. There is a chance for a …
“Germany rocks” – Elon Musk wants to build “cool cars” in Giga Berlin
The tech pioneer has visited the construction site for the fourth Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin – and announced that he …
Brandenburg expects the Tesla factory to start in summer 2021
Up to 12,000 jobs could ultimately be created. Now Prime Minister Woidke is protecting the project from critics who criticize …
Daimler delivers more than 1,800 electric vans to Amazon
The world’s largest online retailer orders electric delivery vans from Daimler on a large scale. The Stuttgart-based company announced that …
World’s first AMG Experience Center opens in China
At the Zhejiang International Circuit in China, the performance brand relies on a special product and brand experience. The test …
Polestar opens its first showroom in Germany
The new electrical brand Polestar has opened its first German branch in Düsseldorf. Similar to Tesla, the brand goes into …
Setback for General Motors: The CFO leaves
The auto company loses a potential successor to boss Mary Barra. Dhivya Suryadevara is moving to Silicon Valley to join …
Ford builds 750 EV chargers at its Cologne factory
Ford installs 750 charging stations on its Cologne factory premises in Niehl and Merkenich. In parallel to the market launch …
Daimler cuts the working hours of tens of thousands of employees
To avoid dismissals, Daimler reduces the working hours of administrative staff by two hours a week without wage compensation. Premiums …
Tesla begins ground work in Texas for its largest Gigafactory worldwide
On three continents at the same time, Tesla is now building new factories for the production of electric cars, battery …
BMW plans to sell seven million electric cars within ten years
BMW wants to significantly increase the number of electric cars with fully electric drives for model series such as the …
Tesla plans to produce batteries at Giga Berlin factory
The US electric car manufacturer Tesla wants to manufacture the batteries it needs for its planned factory in Grünheide near …
Tesla plans to employ fewer people at its German plant
Tesla is pushing the pace. In the new plant in Brandenburg, an early start of production is “essential”. After a …
Volkswagen converting its German plant for ID.4 production
The VW group has started to build a second electrical factory in Germany. The factory in Emden is being converted …
Daimler plans to sell Smart plant in Hambach – French government intervenes
The carmaker is adjusting its capacities to the weak market situation. The Smart, which has so far been produced in …
BMW starts the Tesla hunt – opens new production facility for electric drives
CEO Zipse: Tesla is attacking with modern production in Lower Bavaria. BMW was once an electrical pioneer itself – and …
Tesla lives up to its hype – for now
The pandemic barely slows down the world’s most valuable auto company. But quality problems and a second corona wave threaten …
BMW plans to build 500,000 electric drives in Dingolfing every year
The carmaker plans to employ 2,000 people in the county town soon. In 2022, one in three BMWs sold in …
Tesla reportedly builds “RNA micro factories” for German vaccine company CureVac
CEO Elon Musk surprises with the announcement on Twitter. The biotech company CureVac is also researching a corona vaccine. According …
Volkswagen wants to use “Computer Vision” to improve production efficiency
The Volkswagen Group’s plants are to become more efficient. For this reason, productivity in vehicle factories must increase by 30 …
Porsche makes the Taycan cheaper – for the time being, however, only in China
The first electric Porsche gets a new entry-level version. In China, a basic model is to come onto the market …
Byton stops electric car production in China
The EV startup from China faces major problems. The ambitious expansion plans are at stake, production is at a standstill. …
Tesla plans to manufacture batteries at its own plant in Fremont
The electric car manufacturer no longer wants to be dependent on battery production. The main plant in California is to …
Electric Ford with Volkswagen technology is to be launched on the market in 2023 – Volkswagen Amarok
Representatives of both brands announced the cooperation between Volkswagen and Ford last year. Now, after signing the agreement, however, the …
Volkswagen now lets factory visitors work on electric cars – but they have to pay for it
Anyone who has always wanted to know how an electric car is assembled can take a close look at the …
Mahindra loses lawsuit against FCA for copying Wrangler’s design
In the purest style of certain Chinese brands, the Indian company replicated the design of one of the most iconic …
Panasonic will continue to make Tesla batteries for the next three years
The renewal of the contract could be extended and even later go on to the founding of a new joint …
VW plans to cut 5,000 jobs in commercial vehicles and move production to Poland
Volkswagen plans to produce cheaper models in Poland in the future. After the job cuts, there should be a job …
BMW decides to cut 6,000 jobs
Management and works council have agreed to cut staff levels. The group continues to expect severe sales slumps as a …
Polestar: The first electric car manufacturer joins the German Importers Association
Electric cars are about to make a breakthrough in Germany. With Polestar, the VDIK importers association now has for the …
Tesla plans to start construction of a second US plant this summer
The electric car maker already has concrete plans to pull up its second US plant in Travis County, Texas. But …
Hans Mezger, the star engineer at Porsche, dies at 90
Porsche owes him not only the 911 air-cooled six-cylinder boxer engine, but also the overall design of the 917 and …
Chevrolet will kill the Malibu – GM shunning midsize sedan market
It will join the Chrysler 200 and Ford Fusion in the limbo of American mid-size sedans. There was a time …
Groupe PSA begins the development of a new automatic double-clutch gearbox for its hybrids
It will become the successor to the EAT6 box thanks to joint development with the Punch Powertrain company. Manual transmissions …
General Motors resumes car production in Rosario, Argentina
The General Motors automaker will restart production at its factory in Santa Fe, where it produces the Chevrolet Cruze, after …
All Volvo cars now come with a speed limit of 180 km/h and Care Key
All new Volvo cars of model year -21 now come with a top speed limited to 180 km / h. …
All Volkswagen plants are producing again – capacity utilization is still low
The car company Volkswagen has resumed production. However, due to the corona pandemic, the plants are not operating at full …
Renault fears Chinese competition in electric cars
Landing very often through Norway, Chinese manufacturers are taking advantage of the rise in electrified vehicles to enter the European …
Model Y: Tesla struggles to correct faults in its electric SUV
Tesla’s latest SUV is still under fire from critics for its build quality and finish. Some, despite numerous visits to …
VW boss Diess wants to approach workers after the scandal
VW boss Herbert Diess has now spoken in the power struggle in Wolfsburg. In a video on LinkedIn, he promises …
Honda must stop production after cyber attack
The car and motorcycle manufacturer had to stop production in several countries: Apparently a relatively new encryption Trojan designed for …
Tesla presents new application documents for Gigafactory in Brandenburg (Giga Berlin)
The US company responds to environmental groups and residents and changes the application for approval of the factory. The public …
Elon Musk: Production of the Tesla Model Y has top priority
Elon Musk sent an internal email to Tesla’s staff, notifying them that Model Y production is now extremely important and …
Vehicle production resumes at Nissan’s Sunderland plant in UK
After about three months of downtime due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Nissan plant in Sunderland has started …
Chaos at Volkswagen – VW boss Diess accuses supervisory boards of breach of law
Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess, in front of 3400 top managers, he accused the members of the executive committee that they …
Diess replaced by Brandstatter as CEO of Volkswagen – software problems with ID.3 and Golf 8
VW CEO Herbert Diess hands over the management of the core brand to the previous co-managing director Ralf Brandstätter. The …