William Boston

Volvo is in advanced talks with some of the world’s biggest miners, including over potential stakes in lithium mining or processing operations, Volvo Car CEO Jim Rowan said wsj.com/articles/volvo-in-ad… via @WSJ

Ford is in talks with Chinese electric-vehicle maker BYD over the sale of a manufacturing plant in Germany wsj.com/articles/ford-in-tal… via @WSJ

Electric-vehicle sales surged worldwide last year, driven mainly by strong growth in China and Europe wsj.com/articles/evs-made-up… via @WSJ

Soaring energy prices threaten to inflict lasting harm on Europe’s manufacturers. ‘This is the way we are actually killing industry.’ wsj.com/articles/europe-manu… via @WSJ

Volkswagen’s new CEO endorsed his predecessor’s EV strategy, but said combustion engines could also play a role in efforts to reduce vehicles’ greenhouse-gas emissions wsj.com/articles/new-volkswa… via @WSJ

Glass is so ubiquitous that some business executives and industry analysts fear a serious shortage could result in another supply-chain disruption wsj.com/articles/europes-ene… via @WSJ

Big question for our generation: How to clean up more than a million tons of WWII-era weapons and explosives that were dumped into the North Sea and Baltic Sea after the war wsj.com/articles/world-war-i… via @WSJ

A long-submerged problem is complicating Germany’s attempts to wean itself off Russian gas: Over a million tons of undersea weapons and explosives wsj.com/articles/world-war-i… via @WSJ

A long-submerged problem is complicating Germany’s attempts to wean itself off Russian gas: Over a million tons of undersea weapons and explosives wsj.com/articles/world-war-i… via @WSJ

Siemens buys a stake in Volkswagen’s Electrify America, valuing the EV-charging network at $2.45 billion wsj.com/articles/volkswagen-… via @WSJ

At least three people died and several were injured when a train derailed in southern Germany, police said wsj.com/articles/train-derai… via @WSJ

After Uvalde shooting, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr blasts pol... youtu.be/kHP98QVtQKE via @YouTube

VW looks to boost its U.S. presence by reviving the Scout off-road vehicle brand, as war and Covid-19 cloud its prospects in Europe, China wsj.com/articles/volkswagen-… via @WSJ

From renting a bomb shelter to tailoring shifts around curfew times, German auto supplier Leoni found ways to keep its factory running wsj.com/articles/after-many-… via @WSJ

From renting a bomb shelter to tailoring shifts around curfew times, German auto supplier Leoni found ways to keep its factory running wsj.com/articles/after-many-… via @WSJ

Many thanks to the judges at the SABEW awards for the "honorable mention” for the work that Mike Colias, Nora Naughton, and I did writing about difficulties conventional auto makers face in trying to catch up with #Tesla in development of electric cars. sabew.org/best-in-business/