The German company is doubling down on electric vehicles even as other automakers pull back after acknowledging billions of dollars in losses.BMW plans to make six electric vehicle models at its South Carolina factory by 2030. This model, the iX3, will go on sale in the United States this year.
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Price cuts and low-interest-rate loans are luring buyers, including people offended by the company’s chief executive.A Tesla Supercharger station in Germany. Tesla’s sales have rebounded sharply in Europe alongside sales of all electric cars.
A derailed gamble led Honda to its first-ever annual loss and has intensified scrutiny over the future of its chief executive.Honda was developing several next-generation electric vehicles that were ultimately scrapped because of declining global E.V. demand.
The car’s driver-assistance system was in use when the crash killed a woman on Friday, the police said.Tesla’s driver-assistance systems have been implicated in a number of accidents, some of them fatal.
It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.