Author: Automotive News Feed

The German government is committed to introducing tougher sanctions against companies that foster criminal behavior in the wake of Volkswagen Group’s diesel-emissions cheating scandal, the country’s justice minister said.

The government has welcomed German automakers’ moves toward making concrete offers of discount trade-ins to owners of older, dirtier diesel vehicles, adding that these latest moves had been precisely what Chancellor Angela Merkel had been expecting.

The government has welcomed German automakers’ moves toward making concrete trade-in offers to owners of older, dirtier diesel vehicles, adding that these latest maneuvers are precisely what Chancellor Angela Merkel had been expecting.

China’s Foton plans to sell a 67 percent stake in Borgward as losses escalate at the German brand it revived four years ago.

The UK will cut the incentives to those buying plug-in hybrid vehicles by 22 percent to 3,500 pounds ($4,630) as it focuses on full-electric models, sparking anger from the industry in Europe’s No. 2 market.

Daimler could be the first automaker to offer a combustion engine car with a 100 km (62 mile) electric range, when it launches the Mercedes GLE plug-in hybrid vehicle in the second half of next year.

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Plug-in hybrids have been dealt a huge blow by the new WLTP emissions regime in Europe because many of the models are no longer eligible for tax breaks.

La Unión Europea, expresando su preocupación por un informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre el calentamiento global, acordó buscar la reducción del 35 por ciento en las emisiones de dióxido de carbono.

La nueva planta en Chomutov, República Checa, suministrará sistemas de asientos en varias configuraciones para varios modelos de BMW.