Category: Motor Age Articles

TomTom is freeing up resources to battle the likes of Alphabet for access to mapping technology in-car dashboards.

Toyota and Panasonic are launching a joint venture to produce electric vehicle batteries, reflecting the aim of the two Japanese companies to become a bigger global player in the battery industry.

Renault’s board is pressuring jailed CEO and chairman Carlos Ghosn to resign, a French newspaper reported, ahead of a meeting of the board expected Thursday to discuss how to replace the embattled exectuive.

Renault Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn has agreed to resign his posts, reports said, ahead of a meeting of the board Thursday to discuss how to replace the embattled executive.

Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has had his application for bail rejected again by a Japanese court, even after he offered to wear a tracker and be monitored by guards.

Tesla’s home state of California accounted for almost half of all Model 3 registrations through the first 10 months of 2018.

DeAnna Johnson, 54, said in a lawsuit her supervisor groped her, showed her lewd photos and repeatedly solicited her for sex.

BMW and Mercedes could jointly develop the next generations of their compact cars – the BMW 1 series and the Mercedes A class – as part of a wider cooperation that would also include sharing technology for autonomous cars, a German newspaper reported. …

LG Electronics Co. is the supplier for a Daimler AG Mercedes-Benz model that will feature a motion-detection system that can read a driver’s gestures in order to control some automobile functions, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.

A weekend report by a Japanese newspaper said the French government wants to integrate the automakers under a holding company and appoint the next Nissan chairman.