The extensive structural and management 'realignment' of the Volkswagen group were explained at a meeting for 15,000 workers at the main Wolfsburg plant.
BMW announces that the new hi-tech three-cylinder i8 petrol engine will be built at its Hams Hall engine plant
A123 Systems, recently troubled by a recall of Fisker Karma battery packs, is claiming a breath-through development enabling lithium ion batteries to operate at extreme temperatures without a cooling system.
Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), a region with a population of over 100m people, are forecast by research firm Frost & Sullivan (F&S) to exceed 60,000 pa by 2017.
BMW will build a new line of I3 petrol engines for the i8 plug-in hybrid sports car at its English engine plant at Hams Hall, near Birmingham.
It's hard to fathom, but it's been more than a decade since the peak of the sport-compact craze saw modified Honda Civics cluttering the streets.
Nick Pascoe, chief executive officer of Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), a UK-based engineering company, has spoken of the difficulties faced in recruiting professional engineers in the UK.
Maruti Suzuki India's board (MSIL) on Tuesday (12 June) approved a proposal to merge with Suzuki Powertrain India (SPIL).
Renault Samsung is to idle its plant in Busan for five days to reduce inventory as it battles slow sales.
Volkswagen plans to nearly double its production in China over the next few years, according to the new head of its operations in the country.
Aisin Seiki, the world's fourth largest auto parts producer, is to increase its investment in China as it seeks to raise the proportion of its sales there from 5% to 10%.
Buick is adding a turbo variant this fall as the premium model for the Verano lineup.
Sales by the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand in the first five months of 2012 rose 9.4% year on year to 2.29m units. There was a now-familiar pattern - stagnation in western Europe and good growth in eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and North America.
VW brand sold 9 percent more passenger cars in May than a year earlier as demand in China and the United States offset a weak economy in Europe.