Bloomberg Volvo Car AB plans to build a $1.3 billion electric-vehicle factory in Slovakia, the company said. The new plant will be able to produce 250,000 electric cars per year, part of the company’s goal of reaching annual sales of 1.2 million cars by 2025 and switching its entire lineup to battery-powered vehicles by the end of the decade. ...

  Bloomberg Euro area inflation surged to a fresh record, surpassing expectations and bolstering calls for the kind of aggressive interest-rate increases being deployed central banks across the world. Driven once more by soaring food and energy costs, consumer prices jumped 8.6% from a year earlier in June — up from 8.1% in May. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg saw a ...

  Bloomberg Pipe down for a second Elon, the hottest things in the auto industry — the most electric electrics — now come from Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. Earlier this year, the South Korean carmakers rolled out two new battery-powered cars — the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and its sibling, the Kia EV6 — which promptly tore up the ...