Bloomberg Lamborghini said it’s almost sold out for the year as an easing pandemic unleashes a free-spending attitude among consumers confined to their homes for months. The Italian supercar brand is set for “strong growth” in 2021 and has sold about 10 months of its production capacity, Chief Executive Officer Stephan Winkelmann said in an interview at the Milano Monza …

Bloomberg French investigators said Volkswagen AG has been charged in a fresh crackdown on alleged deception over diesel emissions that’s also embroiled rival Renault SA. VW was charged on May 6 and must now make a 10 million-euro bail payment and provide a 60 million-euro bank guarantee, an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The announcement …

Bloomberg Apple Inc has hired Ulrich Kranz, a former senior executive at BMW AG’s electric car division, to help lead its own vehicle efforts. The technology giant hired Kranz, about a month after he stepped down as chief executive officer of Canoo Inc, a developer of self-driving electric vehicles. Before co-founding Canoo, Kranz was senior vice president of the group …