Renault and Gestamp Solar have announced what they claim is the auto industry's biggest solar energy project, installing roof panels at six French plants in Douai, Maubeuge, Flins, Batilly, Sandouville and Cléon.
Daimler and the German industrial gases company Linde, plan to invest tens of millions of euros in hydrogen fueling stations in Germany, two people familiar with the matter said.
Fiat has told the United States Department of Treasury it plans to purchase the government stake of 6% of Chrysler.
Autoliv has begun building an airbag cushion manufacturing plant in Chonburi, near Bangkok, Thailand. Its existing plant in the country opened two years ago.
Honda Motor Co. said on Monday it has decided to suspend share buybacks temporarily to preserve funds after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Suzuki's likeable supermini is now available with an updated 1.3-litre DDiS diesel engine, promising better fuel economy and lower emissions than ever

President Obama isn't the only high profile American to have travelled over to this side of the Atlantic for a bit of a PR tour lately.
U.S. auto sales probably ran at the slowest pace of the year in May, a pause in demand before lower gas prices and rebounding production in Japan fuels the most annual purchases since 2008.
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said Germany will fail to reach a goal of putting one million electric vehicles on Germany's roads by 2021 if the government doesn't offer subsidies for the cars, a German newspaper reported.
General Motors (GM) Europe unit Opel/Vauxhall is constructing a new engine plant in the western Hungarian city of Szentgotthárd, aiming to boost the company's growing share of the south east Europe market.
General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. may enter contract talks with the UAW this year seeking to close as many as six assembly plants to boost profit while the union tries to save jobs amid an industry recovery. GM, 33 percent owned by the U.S.
Efforts by the UK government to emphasise automotive manufacturing in a bid to combat the global downturn have met with approval from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Malaysia's Proton Holdings reported a threefold increase in net profits to MYR61.6m (US$21.4m) for the quarter ended 31 March, compared with MYR2.64m a year earlier.
Renault has unveiled Carlos Tavares as its new chief operating officer following the resignation of Patrick Pelata as a result of the the automaker's so-called spy affair.
Mazda is effectively moving its factory weekends to Thursday and Friday from 1 July to 30 September to reduce week day electricity consumption in the aftermath of the 11 March earthquake/tsunami which disrupted nuclear electricity generation.
A1 clubsport quattro set to wow crowds at Wortherseetour event, and previews hot S1 production model

Volkswagen formally launched its bid for German truckmaker MAN on Tuesday in a move towards creating Europe's biggest truckmaker.
Two state-owned Chinese automakers have started recruiting engineering talent in Germany to staff their expanding operations.
Renault's new No. 2, Carlos Tavares, is seen as a potential successor to CEO Carlos Ghosn. Tavares, Nissan's top executive for the Americas regions, was named as Renault's chief operating officer on Monday.
Canada is open to selling its 1.7 percent stake in Chrysler directly to Fiat but will wait to see what price the U.S. government gets for its shares in the automaker before deciding. Fiat is in the process of exercising an option to buy the U.S.
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