How one Ford dealer navigated a COVID-19 outbreak

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Renault needed help to deal with the coronavirus crisis as it prepares a cost-cutting plan. The automaker is awaiting final approval for a state-backed $5.45 billion loan.

Japanese authorities have 45 days to file a formal extradition request under U.S. law for Michael Taylor, who was taken into custody near Boston on Wednesday.

Vehicle output at a factory in Silao, which makes the Chevrolet Silverado pickup, and Ramos Arizpe, which produces crossovers, is tentatively scheduled to resume Friday, the company said late Thursday. The restart, GM added, will depend on the status of parts suppliers.

Nissani Bros. Hyundai in Culver City and the automaker were already having problems with their business relationship before the March incidents in which customers who had dropped off cars for service complained that their vehicles were towed away and they were hit with large fees.

The automaker is helping keep key component suppliers afloat by paying invoices early. The company plans eventually to expand the program to other manufacturers across its supply base.

Debbie Hersman, the former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, joined Waymo in 2019 to oversee product safety programs and will remain with the autonomous-vehicle unit as a consultant.

The president, choosing not to wear a mask in front of cameras, toured a Michigan factory where Ford is assembling Model A-E ventilators.The plant is at the heart of what the automaker calls "Project Apollo" -- an effort to build medical devices and protective equipment.

The VW brand's executive vice president of sales and marketing, Duncan Movassaghi, will fill the role on an interim basis. Chehab, who had previously been vice president, marketing communications for Kia Motors America from April 2017 to June 2019, joined VW in August.

Executives from Turo, Getaround and Zipcar are hoping their pitch to customers — a means of travel that is cheaper than car ownership and sanitary — will also win business from public transit users and Uber and Lyft riders.

The change continues a trend of states relaxing policies on auto dealerships in a national push to reopen key factions of the economy. Michigan has the fourth-highest COIVD-19-related death toll after New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.