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  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    Volkswagen AG
    VW apologises for ‘Voltswagen’ rebranding stunt

    Critics round on carmaker after hoax meant to push electric vehicles prompted share movement and anger

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Volvo Car AB
    Volvo Cars revamps parental leave to boost number of female managers

    Swedish carmaker offers full leave to fathers and 24 paid weeks to parents regardless of gender

  • Saturday, 27 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsData rich: the numbers behind corporate news
    Chip crisis highlights supply chain new order as carmakers lose out

    Auto groups must adapt or play second fiddle to Silicon Valley giants in battle for semiconductor supplies

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    The Big Read
    New Suez crisis: a global economy creaking under the strain

    Stuck container ship symbolises the problems many supply chains are facing after a year-long pandemic

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Volkswagen AG
    Volkswagen to seek diesel damages from former chief Martin Winterkorn

    Carmaker will also pursue ex-Audi boss Rupert Stadler following 6-year probe into emissions cheating

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Automobiles
    Honda sells Swindon plant to property developer

    Carmaker’s deal with Panattoni could offer lifeline to facility’s 4,500 workers

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    UK manufacturing
    UK car industry backs Labour’s call for government investment in battery gigafactories

    Country is ‘short’ of electric vehicle battery manufacturing capacity, says SMMT

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    Electric vehicles
    This electric vehicle start-up just became the largest UK company listing in history

    And pretty much nobody has heard of it.

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford axes the Mondeo to focus on electric and SUVs

    Overhaul comes as carmaker prepares to go fully electric in Europe by 2030

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  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    Audi AG
    Audi aims to steal march on Tesla after bold electric profit prediction

    German group expects margins of battery powered models to match traditional vehicles in 2 to 3 years

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    Automobiles
    Toyota within hours of closing UK plants this week because of US cold snap

    Texas freeze hits supplies of airbags, seats and dashboards in threat to global car production

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Volkswagen AG
    VW aims to sell 1m electric or hybrid cars this year

    German automaker forecasts tenfold rise in sales since 2019 as it sets sights on profits recovery

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    Volkswagen AG
    VW plans six European battery factories by 2030 as it bets on electric future

    Europe’s largest carmaker orders $14bn of batteries from Northvolt over next decade

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla’s Elon Musk changes job title to ‘technoking’

    Move comes as electric-car maker appoints head of auto unit to lead truck division

  • Sunday, 14 March, 2021
    Automobiles
    Continental says poor forecasting partly to blame for carmaker chip shortage

    Current supply crisis has forced groups from Volkswagen to General Motors to cut production

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Deloitte LLP
    UK accounting watchdog probes Deloitte’s audit of Lookers

    Car dealership’s profits overstated over a number of years

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    UK business & economy
    UK keen to bring in rival motorway charging point providers

    Transport minister says ‘a lot of new entrants’ would help to fund network expansion

  • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
    Automobiles
    Renault to sell Daimler stake for €1.2bn

    Carmakers will continue to work on vans and engines together

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
    Continental AG
    Continental shares fall as group warns on chip shortage

    Additional costs from semiconductor shortage as group sees sales rebound this year

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Aston Martin Lagonda
    Aston Martin promises to make electric models in UK

    Luxury brand will make a battery sports car and SUV in current plants from 2025

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Volvo Car AB
    Volvo Cars to go all electric by 2030 as it shifts sales online

    Swedish group to set prices centrally and cut out dealers in ordering vehicles

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    Aston Martin Lagonda
    Aston Martin losses quadruple as it clears out dealerships

    Luxury carmaker held back factory sales to empty overstocked showrooms

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    News in-depthElectric vehicles
    Lucid takes on Tesla as electric vehicle competition hots up

    Spac deal injects new funds into Saudi-backed start-up but production delay suggests long road ahead

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Volvo Car AB
    Volvo Cars and Geely scrap merger plans

    Companies will instead collaborate closely on electric vehicle technology and software development

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Mitsubishi Motors Corp
    Mitsubishi Motors set to reverse move to withdraw from Europe

    Japanese group’s expected U-turn a sign of fresh rifts in alliance with Renault and Nissan

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