How PSA-FCA merger plan prevailed despite COVID crisis, squabbles

The automaker's CEO about its recovery from the pandemic and plans for rebuilding the U.S. business while updating on strained relations with Renault and Mitsubishi.

As a Ford salesman, one customer didn't want to buy a truck from Faith Mba because he's Black, and management didn't push back. About 10 years later, Mba bought the store.

The Hummer SUV and Chevy pickup are expected to be built starting in 2023 or 2024, but those schedules likely will be accelerated. 

Diess has asked VW's controlling Piech and Porsche families to back a contract extension in a bid to break a management deadlock at the automaker, Reuters reported.

Huawei Technologies, a major global supplier of communications equipment and smart phones, admonished managers this week who are pressing the Chinese company to expand beyond its core business and build connected vehicles. 

The van drought sprang from pandemic-induced shutdowns at factories that build the high-ceiling and box-like vehicles -- just as soaring e-commerce ratcheted up demand for home deliveries.

Nissan is looking to raise market share with new models in the U.S. as it rebounds from a demand slump triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tesla, which now sells the Model 3 in China and plans to deliver its Model Y crossovers in 2021, wants to invest 42 million yuan ($6.4 million) in a new factory to make the chargers near its car plant in Shanghai.

Automakers that have purchased the defective parts for possible use or installation in their vehicles include Honda, Ford, Subaru, Toyota and Mitsubishi.

Tesla said in NHTSA documents it learned of an event involving a 2016 Model X that prompted a company investigation into the root cause and frequency of the condition that could create a road hazard for motorists behind the vehicle.