A television advertisement featuring a mother caring for her baby while men are being adventurous was taken off air after new rules came into force banning portrayals of “harmful gender stereotypes” in commercials.
Auto manufacturers Ford and the Volkswagen Group have announced plans to strengthen their global alliance and release an electric vehicle by 2023. Much to Elon Musk and Tesla’s dismay, VW CEO Herbert Diess explained their goal is to “turn the electric car from a niche product into a mass phenomenon.”
Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged in Germany this week for his alleged role in the massive diesel-rigging scandal that was first reported on in 2015.
More than 70 years after the end of World World II, one of Germany’s richest families has admitted to its dark links with Adolf Hitler’s regime.
The SEC has reportedly charged Volkswagen and the company’s former CEO with defrauding their investors.
The elite French automobile manufacturer sold the one-of-a-kind Bugatti La Voiture Noire to an unnamed buyer.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)’s Green New Deal legislation will abolish I.C.E. — the internal combustion engine.
German auto giant Volkswagen has reportedly invested 80 billion euros in mass-producing electric vehicles, which one executive referred to as the future of the company’s brand.
Volkswagen is making a big bet on mass-market electric vehicles.
German automaker Volkswagen is reportedly deciding where to build a new North American factory dedicated to electric vehicle production according to the company’s new head for the Americas.
The Wall Street Journal published an article Monday outlining how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s plans to take the company private failed. A combination of doubts about losing control and sharing the “Tesla halo” contributed to the decision.
Car manufacturer Nissan had revealed that it uncovered falsified car exhaust emissions test data at its Japanese factories.
Trump tweeted that the U.S. would impose tariffs on auto imports if the EU does not drop its ten percent duty on American made cars.
The German automotive giant Volkswagen has been forced to rehire a known radical Islamic extremist who they had previously fired because they feared he might commit a terror attack on their factory.
Public criticism of the German auto industry has escalated on reports that diesel exhaust tests were carried out on both monkeys and humans.
Volkswagen is creating an all-electric, Nvidia AI-powered version of their retro camper van that includes facial recognition.
DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Volkswagen senior manager to seven years in prison for covering up a scheme to evade pollution limits on U.S. diesel vehicles, calling it an astonishing fraud on American consumers.
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she thinks the internal combustion engines that are the mainstay of her country’s auto industry will eventually have to be phased out.
DETROIT (AP) — A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat emission rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s carmakers VW, BMW, Audi, Porsche may have colluded to fix the prices of diesel emissions treatment systems using industry committees, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Friday.
Volkswagen pleaded guilty in a US District Court on Friday to charges relating to the “Dieselgate” scandal that was reported in 2015.
DETROIT (AP) — The Volkswagen executive who once was in charge of complying with U.S. emissions regulations was arrested during the weekend in Florida and accused of deceiving federal regulators about the use of special software that cheated on emissions tests.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge approved the largest auto-scandal settlement in U.S. history Tuesday, giving nearly a half-million Volkswagen owners and leaseholders the choice between selling their cars back or having them repaired so they don’t cheat on emissions tests and spew excess pollution.
Volkswagen is forming a company with the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency to develop cyber security systems for Internet-connected cars and self-driving vehicles, the partners said in a statement on Wednesday.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen said Thursday it had set aside 7.8 billion euros ($8.8 billion) to buy back or fix diesel-powered cars that had been rigged to cheat in emissions tests.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge wants to know within a month about how Volkswagen plans to bring nearly 600,000 diesel cars into compliance with clean air laws.
In the Obama Administration’s latest welfare for Silicon Valley billionaires, the President intends to ask Congress for $4 billion in federal subsidies and nationalization of transportation safety regulations in an effort to speed the deployment of driverless cars.
Skilled tradesmen, including electricians and repair workers at Volkswagen’s only United States manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers. The group of about 160 workers authorizing collective bargaining represents the first time that
A drawn out Great Recession in the U.S. over the course of Barack Obama’s Presidency is prompting businesses to outsource operations to Mexico and contributes more to Mexicans leaving America than arriving, according to a new Pew Research study. If Pew estimates are accurate,
In the popular US advertisements for Volkswagen’s much ballyhooed “clean diesel” vehicles, comedy trio The Golden Sisters extol the virtues of VW’s automobiles. After learning about Volkswagen’s diesel deceit, I’m left imagining a more realistic commercial in which the sisters
