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Byline: Jack Ewing Zwickau, a city in Germany's east, may not be as famous as Detroit, but its economy has revolved around internal combustion engines since August Horch established Audi [...]

Puede que Zwickau, una ciudad al este de Alemania, no sea tan famosa como Detroit, pero su economía ha girado en torno a los motores de combustión interna desde que [...]

Zwickau, a city in Germany's east, may not be as famous as Detroit, but its economy has revolved around internal combustion engines since August Horch established Audi here at the [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing and Melissa Eddy The European Union is trying to assemble the building blocks to produce electric cars, but subsidies are luring companies to the United States. European [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing BAMBLE, Norway - About 110 miles south of Oslo, along a highway lined with pine and birch trees, a shiny fueling station offers a glimpse of a [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing Under pressure to cut emissions, truck manufacturers are choosing between batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. Wagering incorrectly could cost them billions of dollars. Even before war in [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing MUNICH - Eight years ago, BMW was one of the first major automakers to sell a battery-powered car: The i3 broke ground with its lightweight carbon-fiber body [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing FRANKFURT - An electric Volkswagen ID.3 for the same price as a Golf. A Tesla Model 3 that costs as much as a BMW 3 Series. A [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing Plunging sales could force factories to close and lead to takeovers and mergers, but also bolster sales of electric cars. FRANKFURT - Some automakers may emerge stronger, [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Jack Ewing VW, Daimler and BMW sell more cars in China than anywhere else and many already cooperate with Huawei - a dependency Beijing is not [...]

VW, Daimler and BMW sell more cars in China than anywhere else and many already cooperate with Huawei -- a dependency Beijing is not shy to exploit. BERLIN -- Chancellor [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing FRANKFURT - Car executives are paid to be optimists, but behind the pomp and salesmanship at the Frankfurt International Motor Show this week lurked an unmistakable sense [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing FRANKFURT - It's a scary time to be in the car business. The internal combustion engine is under attack from electric challengers. Car ownership is becoming optional [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- In 2014, as evidence mounted about the harmful effects of diesel exhaust on human health, scientists in an Albuquerque laboratory conducted an unusual experiment: Ten [...]

The article reports on German carmaker Volkswagen's plan to revive its brand and increase sales in the U.S. through the launch of electric vehicles (EVs). Topics discussed include Volkswagen's opening of a plant near Columbia, South Carolina that will manufacture vehicles bearing the Scout brand, its aim to double its market share in the U.S., and the dominant players in the EV sector in the U.S. which include Tesla, Hyundai and Volkswagen.

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- Sometimes it is hard to tell where the German government ends and the auto industry begins. Daimler and Volkswagen's top lobbyists were once close aides [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, one of the world's biggest carmakers, said on Thursday that it was in talks with the Department of Justice to settle an [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- Even after Volkswagen pleaded guilty to a nine-year conspiracy to dupe regulators and consumers, the carmaker has continued to insist that top executives played no [...]

Byline: JACK EWING, CHAD BRAY and BILL VLASIC FRANKFURT -- General Motors floated the possibility on Tuesday that it could exit the large but troubled European market by selling its [...]

Byline: JACK EWING and MARK SCOTT WOLFSBURG, Germany -- One of the first things Ole Harms did after taking over Volkswagen's new ride-hailing start-up was leave town. Staid Wolfsburg, Volkswagen's [...]

Byline: JACK EWING Correction Appended FRANKFURT -- When Volkswagen executives decided in 2006 to use software to evade emissions rules, they needed help. No one inside Volkswagen knew how to [...]

Byline: JACK EWING The hunt for the people behind Volkswagen's emissions scandal did not end with the company's plea bargain this week. There was the man identified in court documents [...]

Byline: JACK EWING, HIROKO TABUCHI and BEN PROTESS Volkswagen is nearing a deal to pay more than $2 billion to resolve a federal criminal investigation into its cheating on emissions [...]

Byline: ALISON SMALE and JACK EWING BERLIN -- Volkswagen has been struggling for a year to repair the damage caused by a scandal over its cover-up of diesel emissions, promising [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- The German auto supplier Robert Bosch G.m.b.H. played a key role in developing the software that let Volkswagen cheat on clean air rules, according to [...]

Byline: JACK EWING MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The scientific detective work that forced Volkswagen into a $15 billion settlement began with a few researchers armed with just $70,000. For years, the [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- A little more than a month ago, the Volkswagen chief executive, Matthias Müller, said the German carmaker had set aside enough money to cover the [...]

Byline: JACK EWING WOLFSBURG, Germany -- Volkswagen has outlined an ambitious plan to increase profit after an emissions scandal by sharply increasing the production of electric vehicles and reducing costs. [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- German prosecutors said Thursday that they were investigating whether a Volkswagen manager encouraged employees to destroy or remove documents last year, shortly before the Environmental [...]

Byline: JACK EWING BERLIN -- Volkswagen is still managing to make money despite an emissions scandal. It is just not making money selling Volkswagens. The brand problem, a persistent issue [...]

Byline: JACK EWING BERLIN -- Volkswagen is still managing to make money despite an emissions scandal. It is just not making money selling Volkswagens. The brand problem, a persistent issue [...]

Byline: JACK EWING WOLFSBURG, Germany -- The chief executive of Volkswagen said on Thursday that he has personally apologized to President Obama for cheating on vehicle emissions tests, speaking up [...]

Byline: JACK EWING WOLFSBURG, Germany -- The chief executive of Volkswagen said on Thursday that he personally apologized to President Obama this week for the company's cheating on vehicle emissions [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen reported a record loss for 2015 on Friday as it set aside more than $18 billion to cover the cost of fines, legal claims [...]

Byline: JACK EWING Volkswagen is close to completing a deal to resolve claims in the United States over its admission that it rigged vehicles to cheat on pollution tests, according [...]

Byline: JACK EWING Six months after he learned that his Volkswagen-made car violated clean-air rules, Tony German was still waiting to learn what to do about it. After a court [...]

Byline: JACK EWING Six months after he learned that his Volkswagen-made car violates clean-air rules, Tony German is still waiting to learn what to do about it. After a court [...]

Byline: JACK EWING STUTTGART, Germany -- Two former top executives of Porsche, the sports car company, were found not guilty on Friday of stock market manipulation in a case that [...]

Byline: JACK EWING A criminal trial in Germany has shed new light on how a billionaire family acquired ultimate power at Volkswagen in the years leading up to the carmaker's [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- German regulators said on Sunday that they had imposed a moratorium on business activity by a niche investment bank in Frankfurt that played a prominent [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- German regulators said on Sunday that they had imposed a moratorium on business activity by a niche investment bank in Frankfurt that played a prominent [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen may buy back some diesel cars in the United States if it can't make them compliant with air quality rules fast enough, a lawyer [...]

Byline: NICOLA CLARK and JACK EWING PARIS -- The French government has said that tests on exhaust emissions of nearly two dozen cars made by Renault and other automakers had [...]

Byline: NICOLA CLARK and JACK EWING PARIS -- The French government said on Thursday that tests on exhaust emissions of nearly two dozen cars made by Renault and other automakers [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- European anti-fraud investigators have said they are looking into whether Volkswagen misused hundreds of millions of dollars in low-interest loans - threatening a significant source [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen's legal and financial problems took several new turns for the worse on Wednesday, as the European Union's anti-fraud office said it had opened an [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- An executive linked to Volkswagen's emissions scandal has resigned his post as a top manager of the Audi luxury car division, the company has said. [...]

Byline: JACK EWING WOLFSBURG, Germany -- In most years over the past two decades, Volkswagen steadily invested more money in new technology in a quest to become the world's biggest [...]

Byline: JACK EWING FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen has hired an expert in self-driving car technology from Apple, sending a signal that it will continue to invest in leading-edge technologies despite the [...]

Byline: JACK EWING and JAD MOUAWAD WOLFSBURG, Germany -- Volkswagen said Monday it would begin talks with worker representatives about how to cut costs in the wake of the company's [...]