- Breakingviews – Tesla gets board street cred it sorely needs – Reuters: Tesla gets board street cred it sorely needs
- Daimler Trucks affiliate FUSO supports customers with extended vehicle warranty in current situation – Just-Auto: Daimler Trucks affiliate FUSO supports customers with extended vehicle warranty in current situation
- Great Wall swings to first-quarter net loss due to virus after 13.6% profit drop in 2019 – Reuters: Great Wall swings to first-quarter net loss due to virus after 13.6% profit drop in 2019
- Hyundai, Kia announce further production cuts in Korea, Brazil – Just-Auto: Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) this week said it would suspend production at a number of domestic and overseas vehicle assembly plants to help manage inventory as global demand continued to plunge due to the COVID19 pandemic.
- JLR plans Europe production restart in May – Just-Auto: Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) plans to gradually resume production from 18th May, starting with manufacturing plants in Solihull in the UK as well as in Slovakia and Austria.
- BMW X2 facelift to bring styling tweaks and tech upgrades – Autocar: BMW will bring its compact coupe-SUV in line with the latest 1 Series with revisions to the exter..
- Renault looks to Flins restart as Europe slowly reboots – Just-Auto: Renault looks to Flins restart as Europe slowly reboots
- Tesla recruits Hiro Mizuno, ex-manager of Japan’s $1.5tn pension fund – Nikkei:
- Tesla’s China-made Model 3 prices rise after EV subsidies cut – Reuters: U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc’s prices for two China-made model 3 variants rose after authorities cut subsidies in the world’s biggest auto market.
- Toyota Australia boosts hybrid supply from Japan – Just-Auto: Toyota Australia said it had secured “a substantial increase” in production of the popular RAV4 Hybrid SUV from the factory in Japan with additional vehicles set to arrive down under during the second half of 2020.
- Toyota Yaris Cross for Japan and France build – Just-Auto: Toyota unveiled a new compact SUV to the world this week, the Yaris Cross, based on the same the TNGA compact car platform used by the latest generation Yaris subcompact passenger car launched last October.
- Zwickau vehicle plant resuming production of the ID.3 slowly and gradually – Just-Auto: The Volkswagen plant in Zwickau is gradually restarting production of electric cars. Production of the all-electric ID.3 resumes Thursday, initially with reduced capacity and significantly slower cycle times.
