
Tesla whose stock climbed fourfold last year, was slapped with a junk credit rating by Standard & Poor’s because of “considerable uncertainty” about its long-term prospects.

In a week, the auto industry will, company by company, issue data on May sales in the United States. There will be a few constants. General Motors will keep it position as the top company based on US sales and market share. Pickups will dominant the list of top-selling models. And the disaster that is Volkswagen’s sales in America will continue.
General Motors India said it would begin exporting vehicles from the country and start selling a left-hand-drive version of its Chevrolet Beat hatchback to Chile in the first quarter of 2015.
Canada is probing two fatal crashes in General Motors vehicles which were subject to a recall to fix faulty switches and has received nine further complaints from drivers, the country’s top transportation official told Reuters on Monday.