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It’s been an electrifying month for the German auto industry. Mercedes-Benz presented its first all-electric SUV. BMW offered a glimpse of its upcoming EV strategy by unveiling a concept car. And Audi is going electric, as well. On Monday, the ...

This article was co-published with Fortune. On Dec. 6, former Volkswagen engineer Oliver Schmidt was led into a federal courtroom in Detroit in handcuffs and leg irons. He was wearing a blood-red jumpsuit, his head shaved, as it always is, ...

By Jan Schwartz, Victoria Bryan 5 Min Read HAMBURG/BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen is taking another $3 billion charge to fix diesel engines in the United States, lifting the total bill for its emissions-test cheating scandal to around $30 billion. The ...

German government officials and automakers met in Berlin on Wednesday (2 August) to discuss the future of diesel vehicles, after a nearly two-year saga of scandal spread from Volkswagen to others in the sector. Here’s a reminder of how it ...

Volkswagen’s day in a U.S. court has come as a new investigation into l’affaire Dieselgate is unfolding in Australia. The beleaguered automaker is expected to be formally arraigned and plead guilty to three criminal counts in the Dieselgate case Friday ...

By David Shepardson 5 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG VOWG_p.DE has agreed to pay at least $1.22 billion to fix or buy back nearly 80,000 polluting U.S. 3.0 liter diesel-engine vehicles to settle claims it fitted illegal emissions-cheating ...

Volkswagen and its labor unions have agreed on a plan involving 30,000 job cuts by 2020 aimed at boosting profitability and helping the carmaker recover from the so-called “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal. The agreement, reached after months of difficult negotiations, ...

Volkswagen announced Tuesday it plans to pay up to $14.7 billion to settle Dieselgate-related claims. The proposed settlement, one of the largest ever for a consumer class-action settlement, covers approximately 475,000 Volkswagen vehicles including 460,000 Volkswagens and 15,000 Audis with ...

Getty ImagesBy Russell HottenBusiness reporter, BBC NewsWhat is Volkswagen accused of?It's been dubbed the "diesel dupe". In September, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that many VW cars being sold in America had a "defeat device" - or software - ...

(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) If you’re the owner of a so-called “clean diesel” Volkswagen, the news that the automaker cheated its way into meeting emissions standards here and in Europe probably hit you with the force of a 2×4 ...