Incentives for German automakers to build vehicles here — or penalties for imports — could inspire a shift in operations.

Starting Monday, around 5,200 workers at a Mercedes-Benz assembly-and-battery complex near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will begin voting on whether to join the UAW.

The German automaker gets serious about EVs.

The two automakers will become equal owners of Argo AI, a robocar firm that was majority-owned by Ford, with plans to put autonomous vehicles on the roads in the U.S. and Europe.

VW is offering consumers options following its emissions scandal.

The automaker plans to make more electric vehicles and invest in ride-sharing.