The veteran VW executive, who until Friday was in charge of Porsche, will run the company, replacing Winterkorn as CEO in wake of the diesel emissions scandal.

Accused of cheating on emissions standards, Volkswagen saw a massive sell-off of its stock Monday.

With highway fatalities already rising after years of steady decline, the upcoming July Fourth holiday could be a particularly deadly one.

The world’s first autonomous 18-wheeler could signal a future when fleets of trucks that have no humans on board at all.