Automotive industry

How soon can Tesla get its more affordable car to market?

Shares jump after carmaker says it is looking to accelerate production of lower-price EVs

Jack Simpson

24, Apr, 2024 @12:02 PM

Electric and hybrid car sales to rise to new global record in 2024

International Energy Agency says 17m vehicles will be sold this year, up more than 20% compared with 2023

Jasper Jolly

23, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM

Tesla shares under pressure after carmaker announces price cuts

CEO Elon Musk postpones India trip ahead of results expected to show worst performance in seven years

Dan Milmo Global technology editor

22, Apr, 2024 @3:51 PM

Volkswagen ‘the first domino to fall’ after union vote, says UAW president

Shawn Fain tells the Guardian he expects ‘more of the same to come’ after celebrating union’s historic victory at Tennessee plant

Steven Greenhouse

22, Apr, 2024 @3:20 PM

UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant

Vote makes Chattanooga factory first auto plant in US south to unionize via election since the 1940s

Michael Sainato

20, Apr, 2024 @2:17 AM

‘Victories would be nothing less than an earthquake’: can UAW win in the south?

United Auto Workers faces first real test in campaign to unionize 13 automakers across US as Volkswagen workers vote in Tennessee

Steven Greenhouse

17, Apr, 2024 @11:00 AM

Renault sent me an £11,000 bill to repair my Zoe heater

The car is just five years old, and now the company seems to be washing its hands of the matter

Miles Brignall

17, Apr, 2024 @6:00 AM

Australians choose hybrids over EVs as sales of conventional cars decline

Hybrids outsold pure electrics in the past three quarters, according to new figures, while petrol and diesel sales fell 8%

Rafqa Touma

16, Apr, 2024 @3:00 PM

Britishvolt ‘gigafactory’ site to be sold for £110m to US private equity firm

Blackstone’s plans for data centre unlikely to generate thousands of jobs failed startup promised with Northumberland battery plant

Jasper Jolly

15, Apr, 2024 @4:54 PM

Tesla to cut 14,000 jobs as Elon Musk aims to make carmaker ‘lean and hungry’

Billionaire says ‘there is nothing I hate more’ than cutting staff as more than 10% of workforce to be affected

Dan Milmo and Graeme Wearden

15, Apr, 2024 @3:12 PM

German chancellor urges Chinese industry bosses to play fair in EU market

Olaf Scholz says European cars should have equal access to Chinese customers

Kate Connolly in Berlin

15, Apr, 2024 @2:11 PM

Shawn Fain, president of the UAW: ‘Workers realized they’ve been getting screwed for decades’

The union leader has galvanized organized labor in a critical year, after securing a historic deal with the big three carmakers in 2023

Jamie Kitman

13, Apr, 2024 @10:00 AM

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