
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

Longtime General Motors advertising agency Campbell Ewald has undertaken an executive shuffle, which includes naming the first woman as its CEO in the company’s 112-year history.
Kari Shimmel,

Longtime General Motors advertising agency Campbell Ewald has undertaken an executive shuffle, which includes naming the first woman as its CEO in the company’s 112-year history.
Kari Shimmel,

Here are highlights from the latest episodes of ‘Daily Drive’, Automotive News‘ weekday podcast, Nov. 21-23, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
“We see this period as a transition

CHARLESTON, S.C. — German supplier Robert Bosch is in the midst of transforming a portion of its factory to build electric motors and other components for electrification as part of a $260 million

General Motors didn’t just halt Twitter advertising after Elon Musk bought the social network. The automaker’s CEO and vehicle brands haven’t even tweeted since.
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