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The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards.

The Trump administration is citing safety to justify freezing gas mileage requirements.

The month was negatively impacted by an unseasonably strong June for the car industry.

The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the recall of a half-million trucks with faulty pollution controls.

Meanwhile, Detroit automakers General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles lowered their full-year profit forecasts just last week amid worries escalating tariffs would hurt margins and sales.

German automaker BMW says it will build a plant in eastern Hungary to manufacture up to 150,000 conventional and electric cars a year on a single production line.

President Trump may be offsetting wins prompted by tax reform with the higher cost of manufacturing and higher prices that come with tariffs, according to the Association of Global Automakers.

The electric car maker recently announced a plan to build its first overseas factory in China.

The company expects the initiative to generate more than $1 billion of annual revenue in 2022 compared to 2017.

some say that coming forward would help break taboos on workplace illness for other executives and workers.

Fiat Chrysler's late founding CEO Sergio Marchionne was a notorious workaholic who regularly slept on a corporate jet while landing in the headlines for his shrewd deal-making.

The Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing a last-minute order by the agency's former chief that allowed super-polluting diesel truck engines.

With too many factories making slow-selling cars, General Motors can't afford to keep them all operating without making some tough decisions.

Marchionne died this week after suffering complications from surgery.

The Zurich University Hospital where Fiat Chrysler Automobiles founding CEO Sergio Marchionne died says he had been treated there for a "serious illness" for more than a year.

German automaker Daimler AG says its net profit fell 27 percent in the second quarter to 1.8 billion euros, from 2.5 billion euros a year earlier.

Hyundai Motor Co. says its net profit for the second quarter has fallen 14 percent over a year earlier due to the South Korean won's strength against the U.S. dollar.