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Dan Ammann, the former General Motors president who abruptly left his post as CEO of Cruise in December, has been named president of ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions. Ammann will replace Joe Blommaert, who is retiring after 35 years with the company. Ammann’s appointment is effective May 1, according to a company statement. Ammann, 49, had […]

Renault resumed production at its Moscow plant on Monday, a company spokesperson told Reuters. The French automaker suspended operations at the plant in late February, saying at the time it was due to a “forced change in existing logistic routes.” The Moscow plant builds the Renault Duster, Kaptur and Arkana models, and the Nissan Terrano.

Ford Motor Co., seeking to fill the leadership team of its newly created Ford Blue division, said Kiersten Robinson, its top human resources executive, would become general manager of Ford Blue’s family vehicles as well as president of Ford’s operations in Mexico and Canada. Robinson will report to Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, and

The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs with almost no complexity save for a slow curve or an E-ZPass lane. As such, those routes are some of the simpler challenges on the

A number of used-car auction houses are dismissing the reliability and dependability concerns of some about artificial intelligence — not to mention the Elon Musk/iRobot-inspired worries about it replacing humans and taking over the world — to embrace the technology that helps hone the vehicle imaging and inspection process. Michael Pokora, senior director of research

The landlords of a Honda dealership engaged in “unfair commercial extortion,” fraudulently misrepresented the ownership of the property and wrongfully delayed construction of the store for more than two years, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The sharply worded decision upheld an award of $10,517,250, plus attorney fees, in favor of what was then

The Texas billionaire facing the largest U.S. tax-evasion case against an individual is urging a judge to accept his family trust’s offer to put up $1.45 billion in exchange for the IRS relaxing liens on his property and assets. Robert Brockman’s offshore charitable trust is willing to move money from Switzerland into U.S. accounts, according

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., the world’s biggest maker of batteries for electric vehicles, is considering sites across North America for a massive $5 billion plant to supply customers including Tesla Inc. The company aims to build a factory capable of producing as much as 80 gigawatt-hours of batteries a year, according to people familiar

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Joe Manchin, D.-W.Va., on Friday announced  a program to develop lithium batteries in the U.S. as part of a broader strategy to help Appalachia amid a transition away from coal. Lithium-based batteries are critical components of electric vehicles, grid storage and weapons, but the U.S. relies on international markets

The first two-seater electric Porsche will be a 718, executives confirmed on a video call with reporters. Drivers can also expect a hybrid version of the Porsche 911, Oliver Blume, Porsche’s CEO, said Thursday. But Blume did not specify when the production hybrid, which would use full rather than plug-in hybrid technology, would begin. The