GERMANY— Volkswagen Group started manufacturing its ID.3 electric car this month. This is the company’s first electric car based on its Modular Electric Drive Toolkit or MEB platform.
LICHTENFELS, Germany—GE Additive recently opened a 40,000-square-meter campus here called GE Additive Lichtenfels. The facility is the new home for the company's concept laser teams.
SINDELFINGEN, Germany—With customization key to wooing modern consumers, flexible and adaptable human workers are reclaiming space from robots at the Mercedes assembly plant here.
HAMBACH, France—Daimler wants workers at its Smart Car assembly plant here to put in more hours and has hinted that it may shift production if it cannot reach an agreement.
STUTTGART, Germany—Porsche’s assembly plant here is a perfectly lit, technologically advanced, human-intensive temple to Teutonic efficiency and monomania.
LONDON—Eurozone business activity hit a near three-year high in April, as a modest economic recovery gained momentum and began creating much-needed jobs. The Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers Index for April jumped to 54 points from 53.1 in March, the highest reading since May 2011.
MANCHING, Germany—More than 20,000 workers from European aerospace group EADS took to the streets in Germany last week to protest against restructuring plans they fear could cost thousands of jobs. Protests were held at about 30 sites, from the company’s Airbus factories near Hamburg to its Eurofighter jet assembly plant in Manching in the south.
