On the 2015 Jeep Renegade: Serious Fun

This is the first Jeep exclusively built somewhere that isn’t within driving distance from Toledo, Ohio. But it was designed and engineered up the road from Toledo, in Auburn Hills, Michigan. And from its final assembly site in Melfi, Italy, it is going to traverse many global markets.

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Toyota Transfers Learnings

This is the Lexus LFA: It went out of production a couple years ago, after they’d produced 500 of them—by hand—in the Motomachi Plant in Toyota City.

BASF Forms Lithium-Ion Cathode Venture in Japan

BASF SE and Toda Kogyo Corp. have launched a joint venture in Japan to make cathode materials for locally produced lithium-ion batteries.

Magna Sells EV Battery Business to Samsung

Magna International Inc. has sold its batterymaking operations to South Korea's Samsung SDI Co.

EPA Updates Fuel Economy Test

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Developers to Unveil Liquid-Battery-Powered Sport Coupe

NanoFlowcell AG will debut its latest low-voltage concept car, the Quantino, next week at the Geneva auto show.

On Engines, Emissions, Apple & More

Oliver Schmidt is the general manager of the Engineering & Environmental Office of Volkswagen Group of America.

Mitsubishi Chemical Plans Second U.S. Carbon-Fiber Factory

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. expects to open a second plant somewhere in the U.S. in about three years to supply carbon fiber to the auto industry, The Nikkei reports.