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Volkswagen of America will build a 198,000-square-foot factory next door to its Chattanooga Assembly plant to assemble battery packs for its upcoming line of battery electric vehicles, the automaker said Nov. 13.

Volkswagen AG will soon begin awarding more business to suppliers that focus on sustainability while punishing those that don't.

Volkswagen Group is adding a second Chattanooga assembly plant in Tennessee to build electric vehicles for Volkswagen and potentially other brands, with an $800 million investment expected to create 1,000 jobs at the German automaker's only U.S. assembly operation.

Hardly anyone mourned the loss of manual windows — though a few of those anachronisms are still out there, tucked in the bargain corner of some dealerships' lots — but automakers are increasingly hitting resistance from consumers as they try to streamline and modernize their vehicles' interiors.

The strongest earthquake felt in Mexico for almost 100 years appears to have caused minimal damage to the country's plastics industry.

Automakers are on pace to build more new cars and light trucks in 2016 than in any other year, but efforts to reduce bloated inventories next year could lead to North America's first production decline since the Great Recession.

Volkswagen AG is considering building a battery cell plant in Germany that could rival Tesla's "Gigafactory" as the automaker looks to sell 1 million electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2025.

German manufacturing companies are better prepared than U.S. firms to implement the next phases of Industry 4.0, a new study argues.

For German carmaker Volkswagen AG, one of the visions for Industry 4.0 includes mobile machinery, with robots cruising around factories and deciding on their own what they'll do next.