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Freezing weather that interrupted gas supplies in the southern United States and Mexico was wreaking havoc on Thursday with car manufacturing plants on both sides of the border, with Ford saying several of its assembly plants have been shut.

Volkswagen AG late Friday called itself an “unintended victim” in a battle between two battery suppliers and urged the U.S. government to extend a reprieve to buy batteries key to its planned U.S. electric vehicle production.

The Biden administration is vowing to help with global semiconductor shortage.

GM will keep three North American plants closed through mid-March due to a shortage of semiconductor chips affecting the automotive industry.

Ford's electric cars still qualify fora $7,500 federal tax credit that gives it a pricing advantage over rivals Tesla and GM.

Ford is nearly doubling its investment in electric vehicles through 2025.

Ford will cut the number of shifts at the factories that produce its best-selling F-Series trucks for one week due to the global semiconductor chip shortage affecting the auto industry.

Ford sales were down 8.3 percent in January, but the automaker reported a 5.5% increase in retail deliveries.

Ford President Kumar Galhotra thinks the company is in a good position to take advantage of Biden's plan to electrify the federal government fleet. The automaker is in the middle of a $11.5 billion to add electric models to its lineup.

Ford and Google are entering a partnership to integrate the Android platform into the automaker's vehicles and transitioning Ford's operations to Google Cloud.

Ford wil begin production of the Mustang Mach-E in China later this year for local sale.

Vehicles include Ford's Ranger, Fusion, Edge and some Lincoln Mercury models

The masks were donated to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) and were handed out as part of COVID-19 safety protocols, the automaker confirmed said.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has 11 complaints that a recall of power tailgates on 300,000 Super Duty pickups failed to rectify the issue.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has rejected a request from Ford and Mazda to avoid recalling about 3 million vehicles with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.

A shortage of computer chips is curbing production for automakers around the world. 

A growing list of businesses are pausing or reviewing political contributions in response to efforts against the certification of the Electoral College and the Capitol riot by a group of Trump supporters that followed. 

Business leaders from Wall Street to Silicon Valley joined trade groups across the nation in calling for an end to the protests and violence on Capitol Hill.

Ford reported a Q4 2020 sales decline of 9.8 percent to finish the year down 15.6 percent compared to 2019.

To encourage Americans to #FinishStrong, the carmaker teamed up with filmmaker Peter Berg and award-winning actor Bryan Cranston.