Dutch navigation firm TomTom said it had lost a contract with Volvo. The company said the contract to provide location and navigation services to the automaker, which was announced in 2016, had been ended before it was due to go into force in 2019.
Daimler and BMW have offered concessions to address EU antitrust concerns about their plan to combine their car-sharing businesses Car2Go and DriveNow, the European Commission said.
Volkswagen Group China has announced the deliveries for the first nine months of 2018: with its Chinese joint venture partners, SAIC Volkswagen and FAW Volkswagen, the Group delivered 3.04m (2.90m, +5.0%) vehicles to customers in mainland China and Hong Kong, including 137,600 imported vehicles.
Porsche SE said the EUR800m fine imposed by German authorities on Volkswagen Group premium brand Audi would have a "negative impact" on its earnings for full year 2018.
VW CEO Herbert Diess says that Germany's automakers have a only 50 percent chance of remaining leading players in the fast-changing auto industry.
Ford has a named a new head of North American manufacturing operations and a member of the founding Ford family as chief customer experience officer "responsible for creating a world-class customer experience spanning across the entire ownership cycle".
Audi plans to apply machine learning (ML) in series production. The application is quality inspections in its press shops.
Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU's trade chief, said that some of President Donald Trump's rhetoric was unhelpful while she was trying to make progress in tariff talks and said the bloc would have to respond if Washington imposed tariffs on EU cars.
The luxury brand will not appeal the fine, and it said the penalty will have a significant impact on its annual earnings.
'Dieselgate' has cost Audi an EUR800m fine in Germany related to its V6 and V8 engines.
Terrafugia, a U.S. flying-car developer owned by Chinese automaker Geely, has begun taking orders for its first product, the Transition, a two-seat aircraft that can switch between driving and flying modes in less than one minute.
Audi has been fined 800 million euros ($927.12 million) by German prosecutors for violations tied to V-6 and V-8 diesel engines that did not conform to anti-pollution standards.
Audi has been fined 800 million euros ($927.12 million) by German prosecutors for violations tied to V-6 and V-8 diesel engines that did not conform to anti-pollution standards.
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Safety chiefs say Government’s £100 million scheme will dramatically cut road deaths and injuries over next 20 years
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17 Oct, 2018
BMW has topped-off its SUV line-up with the luxurious new BMW X7 using technology from the Rolls-Royce Cullinan
The Malaysian new vehicle market plunged by 24% to 31,241 units in September from already depressed year earlier sales of 40,956 units, according to the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA).
New vehicle sales in Indonesia continued to grow in September, by 6.2% to 93,103 units from 87,696 units in the same month of last year, according to wholesale data compiled by industry association Gaikindo.
Terrafugia, a U.S. flying-car developer owned by Chinese automaker Geely, has begun taking orders for its first product, the Transition, a two-seat aircraft that can switch between driving and flying modes in less than one minute.
Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU's trade chief, said that some of U.S. President Donald Trump's rhetoric was unhelpful while she was trying to make progress in tariff talks and said the bloc would have to respond if Washington imposed tariffs on EU cars.
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