Bloomberg Apple Inc. said the ability to use contact tracing without an app will roll out to iPhones, while Google said Android devices will get this capability in a more limited form later this month. The companies said this will increase adoption of the system, which has begun to identify Covid-19 exposures. It will still only work in regions where …

Bloomberg Car sales fell in France and Spain in August, erasing gains made during the previous months and damping hopes for a rapid recovery from the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. French passenger car registrations dropped by a fifth compared with the same month last year, according to CCFA figures. The total of 103,635 was the lowest since May, when showrooms and …

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is buying 1,800 electric delivery vans from Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz, the retailer’s biggest commitment to date to cut the carbon footprint of its delivery operations in Europe. The deal, for the German automaker’s eSprinter and eVito models, will be complete by the end of the year, Amazon said in a statement. It comes two years after Amazon …