
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

Volvo Cars is restructuring its Americas business and spinning the U.S. and Canada markets into a separate unit.
Anders Gustafsson, 54, head of Volvo Cars Americas and CEO of Volvo Car USA, will give

For most of last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had more money than anyone else on the planet.
Now he holds the dubious distinction of losing more money than anyone who’s ever lived.
Guinness World

Carl Hahn, who led Volkswagen Group’s international expansion in the 1980s, died on Saturday. He was 96.
Hahn died in his sleep at his home in Wolfsburg, according to a spokeswoman from his charitable

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk’s request to get his upcoming securities fraud trial moved out of San Francisco was rejected by a federal judge, who overrode a spirited argument that Musk faces a biased jury

CHIBA, Japan — Akio Toyoda has a new proposal for the global auto industry’s war on carbon levels: He wants to convert old cars to electrics.
Even if all the world’s new vehicles are replaced

For years, Elon Musk paid zero dollars for traditional advertising while almost singlehandedly keeping Tesla — and himself — front and center. With a never-ending stream of tweets, television and

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co.’s top labor executive is retiring ahead of contract talks with the UAW later this year.
John Savona, vice president of Americas manufacturing and labor affairs for Ford

Several top executives at Rivian Automotive Inc., including the vice president overseeing body engineering and its supply-chain chief, have departed in recent months, The Wall Street Journal reported

In a Twitter photo celebrating Tesla Inc. producing 3,000 Model Ys a week at its Texas factory last month, Zhu Xiaotong, who goes by Tom Zhu, stood smiling to the left of the large crowd in a hi-visibility

Six years after personal tragedy inspired a mission to end distracted driving, Steve Kiefer said his foundation has made progress despite Michigan roads being as dangerous as ever.
The Kiefer Foundation

Canadian automotive designer Ralph Gilles feels shaken to “the core” to have received the EyesOn Design award because it’s awarded by past recipients — his heroes.
“If you look back at the

TOKYO — Toyota President Akio Toyoda has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be absent from a series of New Year events to be held by Japanese business lobbies on Thursday, a company spokesperson

St. Louis dealer Frank Bommarito died Monday at 88.
Bommarito, who founded Bommarito Automotive Group more than 50 years ago and expanded it across the St. Louis region, died peacefully in his home in

Tesla’s China chief Tom Zhu has been promoted to take direct oversight of the electric car maker’s U.S. assembly plants as well as sales operations in North America and Europe, according

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised concerns that Tesla Inc.’s board of directors has failed to meet its legal responsibility to protect the electric vehicle maker in the aftermath

Here are highlights from the latest episodes of ‘Daily Drive’, Automotive News’ weekday podcast, Dec. 12-14, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
“We’re a company

Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane.
The reinstatements came