The National Transportation Safety Board plans a public hearing Tuesday to establish the probable cause of a fatal March 2018 Tesla Autopilot crash in California and will issue a series of safety recommendations.

The agency is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on a March 2018 fatal crash involving Tesla's driver-assist system. The automaker hasn't filed formal responses to the NTSB's recommendations from more than two years ago on how to ensure proper use of such technology.

The rare sports car was resold at more than twice the price to a Hong Kong buyer within weeks of its original sale in Canada, despite  a two-year hold agreement, the automaker alleges in a lawsuit. 

If Britain fails to reach a free-trade agreement with the EU, a resulting 10 percent tariff on cars and parts could spell the demise of the automaker's plant in Sunderland, England, Nissan Europe Chairman Gianluca de Ficchy said.

A preliminary estimate of factors by the National Safety Council suggests efforts by cities and states to redesign high-crash areas and lowering the legal alcohol-concentration limit for drivers may have played a role in the decrease.

Manufacturing at Audi’s factory in Brussels stopped on Thursday and the plant will remain idle until Tuesday due to  production issues including battery-supply bottlenecks.

Investors demanded too high an interest rate to compensate for the risk the coronavirus poses to the automaker, Bloomberg reported.

Fiat has stopped visits to its European sites and Italdesign has closed its two facilities in Turin after Italy became the country most affected by the outbreak in Europe.

GM says it will close the Holden brand in Australia and New Zealand by 2021, and completely pull out of Thailand. The moves are part of the automaker's strategy of focusing on its more profitable markets.

The former leader of Nissan, now in exile in Lebanon, will be interviewed from a Detroit stage on March 25 during the Automotive News World Congress.