Author: Automotive News Feed

VW Group will overhaul its dealership and sales organization by early 2020 to enable online sales and over-the-air software updates for its new I.D. family of electric vehicles that will start to debut in 2020.

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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.

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.

Audi has been fined 800 million euros ($927.12 million) by German prosecutors for violations tied to V-6 and V-8 diesel engines which 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.

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.

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.