Make the most of 2020. Read the FT in print for just $99.
Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox
Companies and funds need to step up their due diligence and engagement
Carmaker in talks over Guoxuan deal as it seeks more control over electric supply chain
Herbert Diess tells top managers that radical change is needed to survive industry upheaval
Price of key ingredient in electric car batteries slides after subsidy cut and production surge
Prosecutors accuse managers of ‘deliberately misleading’ authorities and customers
Industry forum warns of danger of relying on imports for key technology
Discussions start as hundreds of thousands of German customers demand compensation
Carmaker must pay $86m over ‘Dieselgate’ despite legal settlement for lesser amount
Company plans $500 systems to equip consumer cars with ‘lidar’ sensors
Volkswagen and BASF among German groups caught in mounting controversy
One of the UK’s biggest consumer lawsuits under way as 90,000 sue German carmaker
Tens of thousands of jobs cut as auto groups pump billions into electric technology
Delays to Germany’s largest lawsuit risk claimants missing out as vehicle value falls
German carmaker to spend €33bn on electric mobility in next four years
Motor industry demands government support to encourage battery-powered vehicle sales
German carmaker warns of global economic risks but sport utility vehicles do well
German carmaker ‘in a rush, but not in a panic’ to develop autonomous technologies
Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia back in the running for carmaker’s new production site
Lawyers say vehicles only in low-emission mode between 15 and 33 degrees Celsius
Global dealmaking eases to the slowest pace in more than two years
Row intensifies over best way to gain compensation in wake of Dieselgate scandal
Diess, Pötsch and Winterkorn accused of withholding information from shareholders
Carmaker open to join ventures to fill supply gap in electric vehicle push
Fears rise over demand for battery vehicles despite display of confidence at motor show
Former chairman transformed struggling car group into a global empire
