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Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Cadillac has struggled for decades to gain a lasting foothold in Europe. To change that, the U.S. premium brand is launching a lineup of electric vehicles [...]

Byline: Lois Hoyal and Douglas A. Bolduc Tesla, Rivian and Chinese electric vehicle makers continue to maintain a big lead over legacy automakers such as JLR and Toyota in the [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath sees "amazing innovation potential and power" resulting from the move to software-defined vehicles. "It's not just a buzzword," Ingenlath said about the [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo is alerting customers around the world that key features in its EX90 may not be available when they take delivery of the automaker's flagship electric [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc German electric motor startup DeepDrive could shake up the electric vehicle sector. That is the view of former Audi and Volvo board member Peter Mertens, who [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volkswagen Group aims to have software-defined vehicles on the road within the next four years. 'We are gearing toward 2028,' VW Group CEO Oliver Blume said. [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Electric-first automakers such as Tesla and Nio outshined established automakers such as JLR and Toyota in a ranking that grades companies on their software skills. The [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Webasto sees cars the way a hammer sees a nail. 'At Webasto, our feeling is that a car without a roof that opens is not complete,' [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Holger Klein, CEO of ZF Friedrichshafen, said young automotive brands such as Tesla, Nio, Xpeng and Lucid are pushing the old German supplier in a different [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Cars' entry electric crossover will be the Swedish automaker's first vehicle to offer a safety solution aimed at preventing deadly accidents with cyclists. The EX30, [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Polestar's latest model, the Polestar 4, will come with a novelty: There will be no rear window. To show what is happening behind the car, the [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc and Nathan Eddy Continental Chief Technology Officer Gilles Mabire has a unique way of explaining the difficulty of the industry's move to software-defined vehicles. 'We are [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Cars' decision to turn its design leadership over to an executive who has no experience at a traditional automaker could become an industry trend. 'This [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Cars has chosen Swiss supplier B'hler to help it transition its biggest, oldest car plant toward a Tesla-pioneered technique known as megacasting. Megacasting is an [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc The Polestar 2 is gaining power and range and receives a new drive configuration and revised front styling that adopts the design language that debuted on [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Cars aims to boost global sales more than 70 percent to 1.2 million by 2025, with half of those models being full electric and half [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc The biggest new product debut for Volvo Cars in half a decade will have standard safety equipment that goes 'beyond that of any Volvo before it,' [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Longtime Volvo executive Lex Kerssemakers is now strategic adviser at the Swedish automaker after its new global CEO Jim Rowan handpicked him for the role. Kerssemakers, [...]

Byline: Urvaksh Karkaria and Douglas A. Bolduc Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar is expanding its high-performance lineup with plans to bring a Porsche 911 competitor to the U.S. around mid-decade. [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Two automotive chiefs who rose to the C-suite from the shop floor say the top level at companies shouldn't only be for those with a university [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Helping Ford Motor Co. debut the Bronco has been a major challenge for Webasto. 'It took a lot of energy, nerves and money,' CEO Holger Engelmann [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc ZF Friedrichshafen has tempered expectations for 2022, saying growth will be 'moderate' because of rising inflation, supply chain bottlenecks tied to the war in Ukraine and [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Polestar's planned rival to Tesla's Model S and Porsche's Taycan will be developed on a new platform that signals a shift from parent Volvo Cars' architectures. [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Polestar's plan to go public this year via a merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Gores Guggenheim forced the Volvo Cars subsidiary to do something it [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Cars' goal to sell 800,000 vehicles globally by 2020 was derailed by the pandemic and then by the industrywide semiconductor shortage in 2021. Despite those [...]

Byline: Urvaksh Karkaria and Douglas A. Bolduc Electric vehicle startup Polestar has spent the past year establishing its beachhead in the U.S., but it is now turning its full attention [...]

Byline: Urvaksh Karkaria And Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Cars is not just changing its product lineup -- it's also rethinking how its vehicles are designed and who will make their [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc and Peter Sigal Continental's supervisory board said last week that it has approved the spin off of its powertrain business to create Vitesco Technologies in the [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo has a new look for the full-electric version of its XC40. The battery-powered version of the Swedish automaker's global No. 2 seller gets a smaller [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc One of the criticisms of ride-sharing is that passengers put themselves in contact with some unsavory characters, such as E. coli and other potentially harmful microbes. [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson is more convinced than ever that the Geely-owned automaker needs to capitalize on the disruption shaking the industry. Thanks to its smaller [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc BorgWarner Chief Technology Officer Hakan Yilmaz says the propulsion specialist is poised to gain from a rapid shift to electrified powertrains, a move driven in part [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc BorgWarner Chief Technology Officer Hakan Yilmaz says the propulsion specialist is poised to gain from a rapid shift to electrified powertrains, a move driven in part [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to delay imposing tariffs on the European Union's auto industry comes as a welcome relief to automakers, but Volvo Car Group [...]

Here are other highlights from the 22nd annual Automotive News Europe Congress, held last week in Gothenburg, Sweden. Nissan Leaf batteries will last twice as long as car, exec says [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Cars said it has signed long-term, multibillion-dollar agreements with Asian manufacturers CATL and LG Chem to supply lithium ion batteries over the next decade for [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo's Polestar subsidiary has signaled its intention to challenge Tesla's early leadership in the fledgling niche for full-electric premium midsize models. The 402-hp Polestar 2, which [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo is looking for innovative suppliers to help it achieve an ambitious sustainability goal. By 2025, the Swedish automaker wants at least 25 percent of the [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc When Volvo Cars named Atif Rafiq as its first chief digital officer two years ago, luring the longtime Silicon Valley executive from McDonald's, the automaker said [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc ZF Friedrichshafen's push into vehicle manufacturing will intensify as its joint venture for full-electric, connected and automated shuttles starts production of the e.Go Mover this year. [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc ZF Friedrichshafen has spent the past year accumulating expertise to help it capitalize on the move toward autonomous driving. The key moves include forming partnerships with [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc BorgWarner's growth continues, despite having to overcome challenges such as the fallout from Volkswagen Group's emissions-cheating scandal and a slowdown in China. CEO James Verrier, 53, [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo Car Group is on a roll. It is headed toward another record sales year, led by strong global demand for its XC90 flagship SUV, and [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo last week previewed its new compact-vehicle range by unveiling concepts for an XC40 and a vehicle that hints at the next V40 hatchback. The vehicles [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson foresees plug-in hybrids gaining greater acceptance in Europe at the expense of diesels. He also expects Volvo to continue taking market share [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri, Douglas A. Bolduc and Christiaan Hetzner This year Opel expects to break even financially after more than a decade of losses, finally rewarding parent General Motors' huge [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri, Douglas A. Bolduc and Christiaan Hetzner Ford of Europe increased vehicle sales 11 percent to 1.3 million vehicles in its core markets and finished 2015 with its [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo will follow its XC90 large crossover by taking aim at the premium large sedan market with the new S90. The S90 is the second nameplate [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Volvo will make reduced complexity a selling point against its German premium rivals, CEO Hakan Samuelsson said. He used three numbers -- 55, 37 and eight [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc BorgWarner CEO James Verrier, 52, sees electrification of the powertrain as a positive for his company despite the supplier's heavy reliance on parts that electric vehicles [...]