
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

BERLIN — Former Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is in line to become supervisory board chairman at semiconductor group Infineon.
Diess, 64, was replaced as VW Group CEO by Porsche boss Oliver

Elon Musk, who lost his No. 1 spot on Bloomberg’s ranking of the world’s richest people this week, unloaded Tesla stock for the fourth time this year.
Tesla’s CEO sold almost 22 million shares for

Volkswagen Group has appointed new bosses for the automaker’s quality and design divisions to speed up decision-making and improve coordination between the VW, Audi and Porsche brands.
Effective

The $5.7 billion of Tesla Inc. shares that Elon Musk donated to an unnamed organization at the end of 2021 went to his own charitable arm, instantly making it one of the largest foundations in the U.S.
The

HIROSHIMA, Japan — CEO Akira Marumoto is steering longtime internal combustion stalwart Mazda Motor Corp. through a delicate shift into the age of electrification.
Marumoto previewed the transition

Tom Carl has joined Automotive News as visual operations manager. Carl, 40, spent nearly 18 years in a TV newsroom in Hartford, Conn., where he most recently was manager of technology and operations.
He

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday said Chief Marketing Officer Suzy Deering, who joined the automaker in early 2021 from eBay, is leaving the company at the end of the week.
The automaker did not

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has lifted the upstart automaker to impressive heights as the top-selling EV brand and industry loyalty leader. But the tech billionaire is undermining that goodwill with his recent

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this report incorrectly stated David Whelan’s relationship to Paul Whelan. They are brothers.
President Joe Biden announced that WNBA star Brittney Griner

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this report incorrectly stated David Whelan’s relationship to Paul Whelan. They are brothers.
President Joe Biden announced that WNBA star Brittney Griner

Toyota Motor North America has appointed Takefumi Shiga as the new head of production engineering and manufacturing for its operations in the region and handed him the leading role in developing its first

Here are highlights from the latest episodes of ‘Daily Drive’, Automotive News’ weekday podcast, Nov. 28-Dec. 1, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
“It isn’t really

Kathy Winter, a senior executive who previously worked in the autonomous vehicle technology divisions of Intel, Motorola and Delphi, will become the new COO at May Mobility.
The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based

The 2022 Automotive News Leading Women conference tackled issues such as diversity and work cultures, leading multigenerational teams and leadership lessons.
Keynote speakers were racing pioneer Lyn

The 2022 Automotive News Leading Women conference tackled issues such as diversity and work cultures, leading multigenerational teams and leadership lessons.
Keynote speakers were racing pioneer Lyn

CarMax Inc. has appointed Joe Wilson, a longtime employee, as COO and executive vice president.
Wilson, 49, stepped into the role “effective immediately,” according to a document CarMax filed