Germany's defence minister on Thursday
confirmed a report that the United States was threatening to impose a 25 percent tariff on European car exports if it continued backing the Iran nuclear deal.
German car giants Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler have posted strong sales growth in the face of a contracting global market in 2019, shifting massive numbers of SUVs ahead of a pivotal year for electric mobility.
Electric cars and hybrids are a major part of Germany's climate policy. Are government officials and energy sector leaders doing enough? A deeper look.
From tougher penalties for reckless drivers and 'gawpers' to safer measures for cyclists, here are some important changes happening this year on Germany's roads.
Carmakers built just 4.7 million
cars in Germany in 2019, industry data showed Monday, squeezing production to
its lowest level since 1997 as US-China trade tensions sapped vital foreign
markets.
The number of people working in German manufacturing firms fell for the first time in nine years in December, official data showed Monday, with car industry jobs among the worst hit.
Although heavily criticized, SUVs (sports utility vehicles) are also growing in popularity in Germany, with over a million registered on roads this year. We look at the debate surrounding them.
Drastic measures are needed to achieve Germany’s climate targets for transport, according to the country's Environment Agency. Will car-loving Germany take action?
German luxury carmaker Audi said Tuesday it planned to slash 9,500 jobs in Germany by 2025 as part of a massive overhaul to help finance a costly switch to electric vehicles.
Daimler said Thursday it planned to cut jobs to save more than €1 billion by the end of 2022, as it grapples with an expensive switch to greener vehicles.
Hopes are high that US electric pioneer Tesla's first European factory just outside Berlin will boost German carmakers, but it also ups the pressure on homegrown manufacturers to raise their battery-powered game.
German car sales enjoyed a strong surge in September, official data showed Wednesday, although the rise was largely attributable to a statistical effect that had weighed on registrations
in late 2018.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel opens the biennial IAA car show in Frankfurt to the public Thursday,
addressing an auto industry on the defensive over safety and the environment.
With a new car and range sporting a spruced-up logo, German car giant Volkswagen enters the Frankfurt IAA car
show hoping bets worth tens of billions of euros will pay off.
Frankfurt's biennial International Auto Show (IAA) opens its doors to the public Thursday, but major foreign carmakers are staying away while climate demonstrators march outside -- forming a microcosm of the industry's woes.
Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes team
on Thursday revealed a special "retro" half-white livery for their cars being used to celebrate 125 years of motor sport at this weekend's German Grand Prix.
BMW said Thursday that its production chief Oliver Zipse will replace Harald Krueger as chief executive in August, as the German auto giant looks to accelerate its transition to electric cars.
German sports car maker and Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche will pay a €535-million fine over diesel vehicles that emitted more harmful pollutants than allowed,Stuttgart prosecutors said Tuesday.
Germany top court on Friday backed Volkswagen owners' claims against the firm over cars rigged to cheat
regulatory emissions tests, in an opinion that could guide lower courts' rulings.
After years tangled in the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal, German carmakers could suffer huge losses if the United States carries out its threat to levy tariffs on European car imports.
