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SHANGHAI -- Tesla’s first Chinese car factory is officially plugged in. State Grid Corp. of China has opened the first transmission line in a power connection project that increases electricity supply ...

FRANKFURT -- Chinese automaker Chery Automobile will launch an electrified SUV in Europe no sooner than 2020, its CEO was quoted as saying by a German newspaper. Chery debuted the Exeed TX compact SUV ...

BERLIN -- Volkswagen Group's Spanish division, Seat, said it would hire 250 more workers at its plant near Barcelona to boost production. The new recruits will strengthen the workforce especially for ...

STUTTGART -- German industrial workers and employers in the key state of Baden-Wuerttemberg reached a deal on pay and working hours, setting a benchmark for millions of workers across Europe’s largest ...

TOKYO -- Subaru hints at a new more muscular, athletic design direction, complete with fender fins and aerodynamic venting, with its new Viziv Performance Concept. The Japanese all-wheel-drive ...

The executives chosen as 2016 Automotive News Europe Eurostars achieved success by exceeding expectations. Agneta Dahlgren, who is Renault’s design director for C-segment and electric vehicles, is ...

China's passenger vehicle exports grew for the third consecutive month, rising 13 percent year on year to 43,000 in June, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. While major ...

French car parts supplier Valeo will buy German clutch manufacturer FTE Automotive for 819.3 million euros ($914 million). In a statement, Valeo said it had signed an agreement to buy 100 percent of ...

European buyers appear to be losing their love of diesels in the wake of the Volkswagen Group emissions scandal. Sales of diesel cars have accounted for more than 50 percent of the region's new-car ...

WASHINGTON/MILAN -- Alphabet's Google unit has agreed to buy 100 plug-in hybrid minivans from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to expand its self-driving vehicle testing program in the most advanced ...

PARIS (Bloomberg) -- General Motors and Mercedes-Benz say the next generation of cars will be self-driving and super-connected. A French entrepreneur is betting they will also come in kits. As ...