Western Europe

The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, home to Mercedes and Porsche, said it would appeal a court ruling obliging it to ban diesel cars from the streets of its capital, Stuttgart. That means the ban will not come into force at the start of 2018 as planned.... Read More »

New-car sales rose 1.1 percent in France in September, as the fall selling season began with mixed results for both domestic and foreign automakers.... Read More »

The latest issue of the Automotive News Europe monthly magazine is ready to view. The new edition looks at whether the diesel powertrain has a long-term future.... Read More »

Germany's ruling coalition is stalling class-action litigation reform — to the benefit of German carmakers.... Read More »

Sales of new diesel cars have been falling in Europe's key markets as customers react to a backlash following VW Group's emissions-cheating scandal. Automotive News Europe correspondents provided snapshots of how diesel is doing across the region.... Read More »

British niche automaker TVR will begin production of its two-seat Griffith sports car next year, 14 years after last making a car. The Griffith is powered by Ford's V-8 Mustang engine and has a top speed of more than 200 mph (321kph).... Read More »

The latest issue of the Automotive News Europe monthly magazine goes live on Monday, October 2. The new edition looks at whether the diesel powertrain has a long-term future.... Read More »

Ford is considering building an electric delivery van in Germany. The model has been developed with German logistics firm Deutsche Post DHL Group.... Read More »

Jaguar Land Rover will end a contract to source engines from Ford's plant in Wales earlier than expected in 2020.... Read More »

UK production fell by 5.3 percent in August on lower domestic demand and worries about the impact of Brexit.... Read More »

China's new silk road, which gives Asian companies quicker market access into Europe, likely will drive down the costs of electric cars and energy storage technologies.... Read More »

The French government plans to protect diesel technology suppliers from the effects of a tax increase on the fuel.... Read More »

Inventor James Dyson has confirmed that his company, best known for its vacuum cleaners, is building an electric car that will launch by 2020. The project has been almost 30 years in the making.... Read More »

VW Group, Fiat Chrysler, PSA, BMW and Ford could be fined for falling short of the EU's 2021 regulatory target to reduce CO2 emissions from their new-car fleets.... Read More »

Swiss tech company ABB has joined Northvolt's project to build Europe's largest lithium ion battery plant to challenge Tesla's U.S. Gigafactory as the demand for EV batteries rises in the next few years.... Read More »

The Green party's emergence as likely powerbrokers in a future German government coalition could be bad news for the country's car industry because the party wants to ban the sale of new combustion-engine cars in 2030, a decade earlier than countries such as France and Britain.... Read More »

Opel's marketing chief, Tina Mueller, is leaving the automaker, Handelsblatt reported. If confirmed, Mueller would be the second leading executive to quit Opel after Karl-Thomas Neumann, who resigned as CEO following PSA's takeover of the former GM unit.... Read More »

Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain to stop the delivery of more than 1,000 Volkswagen cars from Germany while others sought to immobilize vehicles at a port in anti-diesel protests.... Read More »

Germany's VDA industry association and the country's biggest union, IG Metall, urged politicians to help with a shift to EVs and not force a phasing out of the combustion engine.... Read More »

Swiss company ABB will deliver 117 EV charging stations to help boost Germany's electric infrastructure. The units will be installed at service station operator Tank & Rast locations on German autobahns by the end of the year.... Read More »

New diesel cars do not produce less of the environmentally damaging carbon dioxide than gasoline vehicles, a group of newspapers cited the German Transport Ministry as saying.... Read More »

Petrochemicals giant Ineos plans to build 25,000 units a year of a model inspired by the Land Rover Defender but it may be thwarted because JLR is seeking trademark protection for its iconic off-roader.... Read More »

Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer wants clarity on the UK government's Brexit negotiations within six months as the automaker seeks to avoid possible trade tariffs and difficulties in recruiting skilled labor following Britain's departure from the EU.... Read More »

These have not been the happiest of times for the German auto industry. Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche recently conveyed that message.... Read More »

Pirelli CEO Marco Tronchetti says key shareholders have not expressed an intention to sell their remaining stakes in the firm after it returns to the stock market next month.... Read More »