A crash in Wakayama in July involving a Takata Corp. air bag that ruptured and released metal fragments is being investigated, the automaker said Wednesday. The one-car collision left a woman in the front passenger seat with a cut near her forehead that required three ...
Nissan Motor Co. is selling its battery business to Chinese private equity firm GSR Capital for about $1 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter said, as the carmaker seeks ways to improve competitiveness of its Leaf electric cars while reining in costs. The ...
Nissan Motor Co. would pay $97.68 million (about ¥10.7 billion) under a proposed settlement with vehicle owners affected by the Takata air bag recalls. The settlement would pay for a new outreach program to ensure Takata air bags are removed from 4.4 million affected Nissan ...
Workers at a Nissan assembly plant in Mississippi have voted against forming a union, adding to decades of futility by United Auto Workers organizers at foreign-owned auto plants in the American South. Representatives of Nissan Motor Co. and the UAW said late Friday voters at ...
High profile backers of a union at Nissan's Mississippi plant are renewing their support for the United Auto Workers. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez addressed UAW supporters by videoconference Tuesday, two days before 3,700 workers begin voting on whether ...
Demand for profitable light trucks gave Ford Motor Co. and top Japanese automakers better sales than analysts had estimated for June, following a five-month streak of industry declines. Toyota Motor Corp.'s deliveries climbed 2.1 percent in June, while Honda Motor Co. sales rose 0.8 percent ...
Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. raised domestic output in May while Toyota Motor Corp., the nation's largest automaker by volume, reduced output, year-on-year data showed Thursday. Toyota produced 224,855 vehicles at home, down 7.1 percent from a year before, but saw domestic sales ...
Safety officials at Takata Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. will be referred to prosecutors on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injury after a recalled air bag inflator in a Nissan vehicle ruptured in a collision in 2015, an investigative source said. The police suspect ...
Sales in China of Japanese cars rose sharply over the three months through May as sales of Korean cars plummeted, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday, citing the diplomatic row over installation of a U.S. anti-missile system in the country as a major ...
Hawaii is suing auto manufacturers Ford, Nissan and Toyota over air bags that can spew shrapnel when they deploy. The complaint filed Wednesday says the manufacturers knew or should have known for more than a decade that air bags installed in their cars posed serious ...
A Japanese consortium of major automakers and energy firms said Friday it is considering setting up a company this year to spur the construction of hydrogen stations to stimulate sales of fuel cell vehicles. The group — consisting of 11 companies including Toyota Motor Corp., ...
Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of French carmaker Renault SA, sees the embrace of globalization by France's president-elect Emmanuel Macron as a harbinger of faster growth for the country's economy. He also signaled that Macron's policies could pave the way for a deeper alliance ...
