Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda wants to take personal responsibility for injecting design and performance pizazz into the Lexus brand. In essence, Toyoda is setting out to be the automaker's equivalent of the late Steve ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | May 13

Are you confused by currencies? Do you, along with most other Americans, wonder why the yen is considered "stronger" at 80 to the dollar and "weaker" at 90? Here's an easy way to make sense of currency gyrations: Think of baseball ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | March 11

If you hang around Ford Motor Co. much, you'll know it is Henry Ford's 150th birthday this year. The story of the Dearborn, Mich., farm boy who put America on wheels has been told countless times but seldom more rivetingly than the ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Feb. 11

For most members of the Ford Motor Co. management team, the resurrection of the Lincoln brand is a sound business strategy and a critical component of Ford's strategy to be a complete global car company. For ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 21

Japanese automakers are whining about the yen again. Those crybabies should admit that the pendulum swings and stop complaining when it swings against them. They were certainly quiet enough when it swung in their favor for most of ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 14

Experts say new-car sales will keep growing this year. Dealers expect there to be plenty of credit available. Most lenders seem to have a realistic loan-to-value ratio, which means they are willing to finance aftermarket products. But ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 14

In his first administration, President Obama strongly supported electric-drive vehicles. Now that he has been re-elected, will he double down? It probably will take several months to find out, one person connected to alternative ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 10

Four years after the auto industry started trembling at the real prospect of a global fuel shortage, painful pump prices and consumers clamoring for vehicles that can deliver 50 mpg, this news arrives from the International Energy Agency ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 19

This is a time of retrenchment in electric vehicles and alternative powertrains. Entrepreneurs are flaming out -- sometimes literally. And major automotive players are quietly putting their more adventuresome technologies on the back ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 12

It's hard to miss the contrast between U.S. and European auto sales. They are polar opposites these days. And the trend lines for both auto industries are accelerating -- away from each other. U.S. sales are about to finish a third ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 5

Because a growing number of dealers say they rely on independent online consumer feedback to run their businesses, it could make sense for automakers to use a similar online-ratings type system for their own customer satisfaction index ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 22

The Obama administration's tilt toward electric vehicles as a solution to global warming and dependence on foreign oil has always produced some grumbling. The general complaint has been that the administration should focus on ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 8

David Roberts expects the lithium ion battery company that he heads to begin generating black ink late next year or by 2014 at the latest. Amid the turmoil hitting the electric vehicle segment and its battery-pack suppliers, that ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 10

For a while, it looked like we were seeing the first stirrings of electric-vehicle keiretsu. In 2010, battery maker A123 Systems took a $20.5 million stake in Fisker Automotive and supplied the batteries for ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 13