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Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: August 15, 2021 at 02:00AM Ahead of the climate summit in Scotland, Congress can take real action.

Author: BY JASON FARAGO - Publish Date: August 13, 2021 at 12:44AM “Automania” airlifts nine cars into the sculpture garden and galleries. But it’s harder now to think of cars as objects of beauty.

Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: June 9, 2021 at 11:56PM The tighter fuel economy and tailpipe pollution rules are along the lines of what California has already agreed to with five other auto companies.

Author: BY NEAL E. BOUDETTE AND CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: January 30, 2021 at 06:54AM Every carmaker is trying to figure out how to make the leap before governments force it and Tesla and other start-ups lure away drivers.

Author: BY BRAD PLUMER AND NADJA POPOVICH - Publish Date: February 3, 2020 at 07:58AM This year’s Super Bowl ads may be a sign that a shift is coming, as automakers try to persuade a skeptical public that electric vehicles are the future.

Author: BY DANYA ISSAWI - Publish Date: January 21, 2020 at 08:00AM And in Los Angeles! Lauren Ferree, 27, does not miss the traffic — or destroying the environment.

Author: BY TIFFANY HSU - Publish Date: October 30, 2019 at 07:20AM Toyota’s support of the Trump administration in its fight with California over auto emissions shocked consumers in a state known for its environmental activism.

Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: October 25, 2019 at 08:00AM A $450 billion climate change proposal from Senator Chuck Schumer would give consumers vouchers to buy American-made electric and hybrid cars and trucks.

Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: September 24, 2019 at 11:34AM Saying California has the worst air quality in the country, the E.P.A. chief fires the latest salvo in an escalating battle over clean air and states’ rights.

Author: BY JACK EWING - Publish Date: September 8, 2019 at 11:01AM The carmaker is updating its familiar trademark at the same time it is beginning a push to make electric vehicles affordable to the masses.

Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: September 7, 2019 at 07:02AM The Justice Department is roughing up Mr. Trump’s political enemies and threatening the environment.

Author: MELISSA EDDY - Publish Date: July 31, 2019 at 07:00AM Mr. Stadler, who led Volkswagen’s Audi luxury car division, was charged in Munich with fraud and illegal advertising tied to the company’s diesel emissions scandal.

Author: TIFFANY HSU - Publish Date: June 5, 2019 at 07:00AM A marketing push hatched by the firm that makes ads for Adidas and Google zooms past contrition on its way toward a greener future for the world’s largest automaker.

Author: JACK EWING - Publish Date: May 6, 2019 at 07:00AM Hemanth Kappanna’s research helped plunge Volkswagen into a scandal that continues to plague it. In February, he got two months’ pay and a one-way ticket to India.

Author: TIFFANY HSU - Publish Date: April 26, 2019 at 07:00AM In a regulatory filing, the carmaker said it had notified other state and federal agencies about “issues relating to road load estimations” and that it was cooperating with all government inquiries.

Author: CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE - Publish Date: April 15, 2019 at 07:00AM Prosecutors in Germany connected the charges against Martin Winterkorn and four other managers to events that ran from 2006, when the diesel scandal was first conceived, to 2015.

Author: NEAL E. BOUDETTE - Publish Date: April 12, 2019 at 07:00AM The automaker, which is trying to regain the trust of car buyers after an emissions scandal in 2015, has acknowledged improperly selling preproduction cars.

Author: ALEXANDRA STEVENSON - Publish Date: March 15, 2019 at 07:00AM Regulators sued the German carmaker and Martin Winterkorn, its former chief executive, saying they defrauded investors.

Author: NEAL E. BOUDETTE - Publish Date: January 9, 2019 at 07:00AM The company will pay compensation to car owners and civil penalties to federal and state agencies to settle lawsuits over its use of illegal software, people briefed on the case said.