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Lucid Motors has appointed a former Apple Inc. executive, Derrick Carty, as vice president of platform software engineering amid a slow rollout of key software features on the EV startup’s Air sedan. Carty’s responsibilities at the newly created post include advanced driving assistance systems, audio, embedded software, and systems architecture, Lucid said a news release. […]

A Volkswagen dealership in Marion, Ill., is deploying strategies traditionally used to foster vehicle sales to encourage staffers to buy more used cars directly from consumers to help the store stock its lot. The efforts have helped reduce Volkswagen of Marion’s reliance on buying from wholesale auctions, lowered its per-vehicle acquisition costs and boosted used-vehicle

General Motors’ is idling production at two plants next week: The main plant in Mexico that makes GMC and Chevrolet pick-up trucks as well as the Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Both plants are halting production over supply chain and parts issues, the company said Friday. The U.S. carmaker will suspend work beginning Aug.

VANCE, Ala. — Mercedes-Benz’s U.S. assembly plant, which has been building gasoline-powered trucks for 25 years, could switch to all-electric vehicle production as early as 2025, the luxury brand’s global production chief Jörg Burzer told Automotive News Thursday. It’s a bold bet on EV adoption in the U.S. and worldwide. Mercedes’ 6 million-square-foot factory in

Group 1 Automotive Inc. will stay focused on growth through acquisitions, both in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, as the public dealership group prepares for a CEO changeover next year. Daryl Kenningham, Group 1’s president of U.S. operations since 2019 until his promotion this week to president and COO, will take over as chief

GM Financial will replace its General Motors-branded finance-and-insurance product portfolio in the fourth quarter with a new lineup developed with Safe-Guard Products International. Safe-Guard will replace the Amynta Group as GM Protection’s white-label F&I product partner. Amynta did not respond to a request for comment. “We’re out talking to dealers right now,” GM Financial Senior

A fired employee of a New Hampshire Chevrolet dealership is suing his former employer, alleging his rights were violated under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, among other laws. The complaint, filed July 25 with the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, alleges MacMulkin Chevrolet Inc. in Nashua wrongfully terminated plaintiff Matthew Caron after he

Mercedes-Benz Group and Volkswagen Group on Tuesday signed deals with the Canadian government to secure access to Canada’s large stores of key battery materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite, as the German companies compete for scarce supplies of raw materials with other automakers shifting to electric vehicles. Markus Schaefer, chief technology officer at

WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor North America has agreed to recognize California’s authority to set vehicle emission standards under the Clean Air Act, the Japanese automaker said Tuesday. In a letter sent to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s Air Resources Board Chair Liane Randolph, Toyota said it is “committed to emission reductions and vehicle

A Canadian auto retailer continued its U.S. expansion, a growing New York dealership group added a store, brothers added a second dealership and siblings sold their only dealership in separate second- and third-quarter transactions. Here’s a look at the deals involving domestic and import dealerships and stores in California, Florida and New York. Two transactions