Reopening auto plants will require safety and strategy

By Hannah Lutz General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra (left) and Ventec Life Systems CEO Chris Kiple (center) talk with a worker while touring the GM manufacturing facility in Kokomo, Ind.. GM and Ventec Life Systems are...

Sales collapse spurs call for relief

Reuters BEIJING — Automakers in China are calling on the government to help after industrywide sales plunged 79 percent in February to mark their biggest ever monthly decline, with demand lashed by the coronavirus outbreak....

China’s No. 3 battery maker: Auto recovery needed by May

China’s electric-vehicle makers need to return production to normal levels in the next few months to prevent a bigger hit to supply chains already pressured by an unprecedented plunge in auto sales, according to the country’s...

Honda resumes limited output at plant in virus-hit Wuhan

NAOMI TAJITSU TOKYO — Honda Motor Co. on Wednesday said that limited operations had resumed at its production site in Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s coronavirus outbreak where some workers returned to their jobs...