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Visitors look at an MG car during the opening of China Auto Show in Beijing, China, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Chinese automakers redefine the car as a living space at Beijing Auto Show

BEIJING (AP) — How about turning a car’s front bucket seats 180 degrees so they face the rear seats and extending out a table so the occupants can play cards or eat a meal?

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume speaks during a media event held by the Volkswagen Group a day before the auto show in Beijing, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The Volkswagen Group, which includes Audi and Porsche, plans to launch 40 new models in China over the next three years and to have a lineup of 30 EVs by 2030. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Volkswagen revamps its approach in China in bid to overtake upstart EV makers

FILE - An SAIC Volkswagen plant is seen in the outskirts of Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Thursday, April 22, 2021. A new report says automakers including Tesla, General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota are failing to ensure they are not using forced labor as part of their China supply chains. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Major automakers may be using Chinese aluminum produced with Uyghur forced labor, rights group says

An SAIC Volkswagen plant is seen in the outskirts of Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Thursday, April 22, 2021. An audit commissioned by Volkswagen has found no indication of forced labor at its plant in China's Xinjiang region, where Western governments have accused the Chinese government of human rights violations against the Uyghur ethnic minority, announced in a media briefing in Germany on Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Volkswagen-commissioned audit finds no signs of forced labor at plant in China’s Xinjiang region

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German automaker Volkswagen holds press preview event ahead of the Beijing Auto Show

The Volkswagen Group, which also includes Audi and Porsche, plans to launch 40 new models in China over the next three years and to have a lineup of 30 EVs by 2030 in what Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume told investors Wednesday is the company’s “second home market.”

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Production at German Volkswagen plants resumes after disruption caused by an IT problem

Volkswagen says production is resuming after a problem with the German automaker’s information technology network caused a severe disruption.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb speaks to media during a press conference at the ACCC Office in Sydney, Australia, on June 8, 2022. Australia’s consumer watchdog on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, called for Qantas Airways to be punished with a record fine for allegedly selling tickets on thousands of flights that had already been canceled. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)

Australian consumer watchdog calls for record fine against Qantas over canceled flights

Australia’s consumer watchdog has called for Qantas Airways to be punished with a record fine for allegedly selling tickets on thousands of flights that had already been canceled.

Volkswagen takes steps to boost its China business as first-half earnings fall by 20%

Volkswagen has seen after-tax earnings fall by 20% in the first half of the year from the same period last year.

Volkswagen to build electric vehicle battery plant in Canada

ST. THOMAS, Ontario (AP) — Volkswagen announced Monday it plans to build a major plant for electric vehicle batteries in Canada.

FILE - A man looks out of the window of an office building in Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 6, 2022. A new report says climate commitments by companies aren’t always as green as they seem. The report published Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, concludes that major brands are exaggerating how ambitious their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are, essentially misleading consumers, investors and governments. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Report: Companies’ climate targets not what they claim to be

A new report says climate commitments by companies aren’t always as green as they seem. The report published Monday concludes that major brands are exaggerating how ambitious their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are, essentially misleading consumers, investors and governments.

FILE - Traffic moves along the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles on Nov. 22, 2022. Fuel economy for 2021 model year vehicles in the U.S. stayed flat with 2020, as people continued to buy less-efficient trucks and SUVs, according to an annual government report published Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

EPA: US fuel economy flat in 2021, emissions down slightly

A government report says fuel economy for 2021 model year vehicles in the U.S. stayed flat with 2020 as people continued to buy less-efficient trucks and SUVs.

Volkswagen to pay NH $1.15M in emissions-related settlement

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Volkswagen Group of America and related companies are going to pay the state of New Hampshire $1.15 million in a settlement for the use of devices on some diesel vehicles that resulted in excess emissions of nitrogen oxides, the state attorney general’s office said.

VW asks historian to research role under Brazil dictatorship

BERLIN (AP) — German automaker Volkswagen AG says it has commissioned a historian to research its role during Brazil’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship.

A Toyota FT-HT Yuejia concept car is displayed at the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (AUTO Shanghai) in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Toyota top selling automaker despite China fall

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota held onto its status as the world’s top-selling automaker in the first quarter of this year, although the three-way race with General Motors and Volkswagen is proving tight, as its sales fall in China and Japan.