The company’s woes are symptomatic of a wider malaise among companies that make batteries for electric vehicles.

The new agreement builds on an earlier announcement in which the German automaker said it would invest up to $5 billion in Rivian, a maker...

The European Union is trying to assemble the building blocks to produce electric cars, but subsidies are luring companies to the United States.

Rupert Stadler, a former member of Volkswagen’s management board, would be the highest-ranking executive to confess wrongdoing in a case that rocked the industry.