CIBOLO, TX—A supplier for Toyota and other automakers is expected to break ground in September on a new assembly plant here that will provide 900 full-time jobs.

AUBURN HILLS, MI—Flint, MI, and Greensboro, NC, are among the cities in contention to land Mahindra Automotive North America’s second U.S. assembly plant.

STUTTGART, Germany—Porsche recently unveiled its new Bioconcept-Car, built primarily with organic materials and help from researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, who have discovered how to reduce component weight by substituting with carbon fibers.

BELMONT, CA—Earlier this month, Volkswagen rolled out its Type 20 concept microbus at its Engineering Center California. The vehicle features parts from the past, as well as those made with AI design software.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—GreenPower Motor Co. Inc., a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of all-electric buses, has announced it achieved a revenue of $6.1 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019, an increase of 73 percent over the previous year, and the largest in the company’s history.