William Boston

By William Boston BERLIN--Volvo Cars Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson said Monday that the lower-than-expected valuation of the company’s initial public...

Upstart operators are trying to get a cost edge over bigger, more-established rivals. The jury is still out on whether it will be successful.

It will increase the demand for communications. But it’s also more efficient. Three experts weigh in on the bottom line.

Among the possible uses: updates on the go, alerts about road conditions, and cars that talk to one another.

In the race to build a cheaper and longer-range electric car, auto companies are pouring more money into the technology, which has long been considered a moonshot.

Volkswagen, one of the world’s two largest auto makers by sales, could be the world’s biggest maker of electric vehicles as soon as next year—but making a cost-effective EV battery is a challenge.

Global auto makers who had expected the semiconductor supply crisis to subside in the spring are now warning that chips will remain scarce for months while a second-half recovery is fraught with uncertainty.

The car maker is not swapping a ‘k’ for a ‘t’ to rename its U.S. subsidiary “Voltswagen of America” as an earlier press release had indicated, the company said, calling the announcement an April Fools’ joke.

Investors are piling into a long-neglected sector: old-school car makers that are reinventing themselves as electric-vehicle producers.

Europe is buying electric vehicles at a record pace and has overtaken China as the world’s biggest EV market. But some worry the trend will be short-lived.

Faulty software set back a bid by the world’s largest car maker for electric-vehicle dominance.

A German court ordered former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn to stand trial on charges of defrauding customers in a case that could shed new light on one of Germany’s largest corporate scandals.

The surprise changes that stripped Chief Executive Herbert Diess of some of his core responsibilities on Monday revealed a deep rift between the manager and the company’s owners and workers.

Electric-car maker Tesla pulled off opening a car factory in China with breakneck speed, sending the company’s shares to record heights. Speed bumps await the planned construction of a plant in Germany.

In a rare industrialization success story for the continent, some of the largest car makers have been transforming North Africa into the world’s newest car-manufacturing cluster.