Renault CEO Luca de Meo worked for more than eight months to reboot the automaker’s alliance with Nissan Motor Co. to move beyond a “culture of compromise” that had been the status quo

The restructuring of the Nissan and Renault  alliance is not the legacy Carlos Ghosn had in mind. The announcement Monday that Renault will gradually reduce its stake in Nissan is a repudiation of the

Ford Motor Co.’s engineering ranks may bear the brunt of additional job cuts the automaker has alluded to in the wake of disappointing earnings, judging from CEO Jim Farley’s latest interview. “It

General Motors got its newest vice president from Tesla, but he was raised on GM. Zach Kirkman joined GM in January as vice president of corporate development and global mergers and acquisitions. He previously

SAN FRANCISCO — A jury cleared Elon Musk of claims by Tesla Inc. investors that he defrauded them when he tweeted 4 1/2 years ago that he was considering taking the company private and had “funding

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk settled into a federal courtroom here on Friday and had a laugh just as closing arguments were about to begin in the trial over whether his 2018 tweets defrauded Tesla

ATLANTA — Mercedes-Benz USA’s longtime marketing boss and onetime interim CEO Drew Slaven has left the company. In a memo to the brand’s dealers reviewed by Automotive News, Mercedes-Benz

DETROIT — General Motors said it has hired former Tesla Inc. executive Zach Kirkman as vice president of corporate development and global mergers and acquisitions. GM’s CFO Paul Jacobson announced

Ana Gasteyer, the “Saturday Night Live” alum whose current TV role is the CEO of fictional Detroit automaker Payne Motors, says she’d love to arrange a guest appearance for her real-life

SAN FRANCISCO — The board chair of Tesla Inc. defended CEO Elon Musk in a securities fraud trial on Friday, telling jurors that she would have quit as a director if she had thought Musk lied by

WASHINGTON — Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk met two top officials in President Joe Biden‘s administration on Friday in Washington to discuss how the car maker and the Democratic president could

U.S. stock market regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla Inc.’s self-driving vehicle claims, the latest effort by watchdogs to scrutinize the actions of the world’s second-richest

The world’s No. 1 automaker has a new CEO, and the transition of power could not have come at a more pivotal time. Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday surprised the market when it announced that Lexus President

Tesla Inc.’s former chief financial officer told a jury that Elon Musk’s 2018 tweet about taking the company private was at odds with a regulatory preference not to release “material

SAN FRANCISCO – Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk testified Tuesday that he intended to inform and not deceive shareholders when he tweeted in 2018 that he had funding lined up to take the electric car maker

Elon Musk testified that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund “unequivocally” wanted to take Tesla Inc. private in 2018, a core element of his defense to claims that his tweets about

German parts supplier ZF Group’s heated seat belt promises to increase driver comfort in cold weather and even conserve battery range in electric vehicles in the process. The Heat Belt contains

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk played down how much impact his tweets have on the company’s stock price as he defended himself at a trial over his 2018 tweet about taking the electric car-maker private. “It’s

Carl Hahn, the visionary German executive who championed the Beetle and Microbus in the U.S. and later led Volkswagen Group’s international expansion into China in the 1980s, died Jan. 14. He was

Volkswagen of America will promote two longtime executives into sales and marketing roles and has parted ways with a former Honda sales executive. Hein Schafer, 43, currently senior vice president of

Elon Musk misled Tesla Inc. shareholders when he tweeted in 2018 about taking the company private with “funding secured” and cost them millions of dollars, a lawyer for investors told jurors