By Pierre-Henry Deshayes
Ministers in Norway — a major and rich oil-producing country — are under increasing public pressure to reduce perks and tax breaks for booming electric car sales.
“It’s become a problem,” said Erik Haugstad, a bus driver in the Oslo region who complains about the numerous electric cars clogging bus lanes, which they have the right to use in Norway.
AvtoVAZ, the Russian carmaker controlled by Renault-Nissan, may bring some parts production in-house as it struggles to get more competitive pricing and stamp out corruption in its local supply chain, senior executives said.
The maker of Lada cars is studying plans to invest in the manufacturing of components including seats and smaller metal body parts currently bought from suppliers, Chief Financial Officer Evgeny Belinin told reporters.
by Sui-Lee Wee
State-owned FAW has a joint venture with Volkswagen AG. The joint venture is one of the two car-making ventures the German automaker has in China.
By JOE McDONALD
Tesla Motors Co. and a state-owned Chinese phone carrier, China Unicom, announced plans Friday to build 400 charging stations for electric cars in a new bid to promote popular adoption of the technology in China.
By Ashlee Kieler
Less than a month after General Motors’ victim compensation plan began accepting claims, the company has received notice of 107 deaths possibly related to its ongoing ignition switch defect. That figure far surpasses the 13 deaths the company previously acknowledged and the 74 deaths one report found could be tied to the defect.
