Automobile

Italian scooter maker Piaggio said on Monday it signed a letter of intent with KTM AG, Honda Motor Co. and Yamaha Motor Co. to set up a consortium for swappable batteries for motorcycles and light electric...

Volkswagen unit Porsche is participating in a financing round of Rimac Automobili that will see the electric supercar maker raise 130 million-150 million euros ($157 million-$181 million), its owner Mate Rimac told weekly Automobilwoche. The fundraising...

China’s passenger vehicle sales are expected to surge 377 percent year on year to around 1.19 million units in February due to the low base factor last year, according to a report from an industrial association....

Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than one million cars over a safety defect with the cars’ emergency call system. The problem is with the cars’ eCall feature, which alerts emergency services of an accident and relays a...

Jaguar Land Rover’s Jaguar brand will be all-electric by 2025, the carmaker has said. The company will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030, it added. The firm said it...

Volkswagen AG on Thursday said it will use Microsoft Corp’s cloud computing services to help it streamline its software development efforts for self-driving cars. Volkswagen, which owns brands such as Audi and Porsche, is working on...

For a few weeks this year, South Korean carmaker Hyundai was dusted with the Apple magic. Last month Hyundai let slip that it was in talks with the maker of the iPhone to co-operate on a...

German carmaker Daimler aims to keep a “protective hand” on Daimler Trucks, the world’s largest truck and bus maker, following a planned spin-off, Chief Executive Ola Källenius told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS). Daimler said on...

Amazon.com Inc has ordered more than 1,000 truck engines that run on compressed natural gas as it tests ways to shift its U.S. fleet away from heavier polluting trucks, the company told Reuters on Friday. The...

Renault and Stellantis are both suspending car production at several factories as they grapple with a worldwide shortage of crucial semiconductors, the companies said on Friday. Carmakers around the world have been hit by the shortage...