Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down Britain's plans to tackle climate change on Wednesday, saying he would delay a ban on sales of new petrol cars to maintain the consent of the British people in the switch to net zero.

Stellantis NV’s new contract offer to the United Auto Workers lacks the job security guarantees the union wants, a negotiator said, suggesting workers will reject it days before a deadline to expand their historic strike.

The United Auto Workers struck a plant that makes parts for Mercedes-Benz Group AG vehicles, as the union continued to weigh expanding the number of walk-out targets at Detroit’s automakers. 

The United Auto Workers weighed an expansion of its strikes against Detroit’s automakers on Tuesday, after union President Shawn Fain said more plants faced walkouts if carmakers didn’t sweeten their offers.

Volkswagen AG’s powerful works council called on management to be more forthcoming about plans to boost profits as they head into negotiations over cost-cutting measures in the coming weeks.

Hispanic Americans are the largest minority group in the U.S., representing 19 percent of the population and projected to grow to one quarter of the U.S. by 2030.

Volvo Cars said on Tuesday that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.

Mercedes-Benz Group AG’s top executive sees measures to decouple from China as a risk to healthy competition and global automotive supply chains.

At factories in Japan's industrial heartland, Toyota has turned to self-propelled assembly lines, massive die casting and even old-fashioned hand polishing as it aims to make up for lost ground in battery electric vehicles.

The United Auto Workers said more of its members will go on strike at General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV facilities starting at noon Friday unless substantial headway is made toward new labor contracts.