Bosch is being fined for "negligent breach of supervision duties," the prosecutor's office said in an emailed statement.

Volkswagen has now ended all probes by German prosecutors against its units over the sale of rigged cars.

Highly-automated trucks will improve safety and boost the performance of logistics, according to Daimler's Martin Daum.

Volvo Car Group said it expects to soon start phasing out vehicles powered solely by fossil fuels, joining a parade of manufacturers in shifting toward electrics more quickly than most in the industry expected a few years back.

VW has reached an agreement with U.S. environmental regulators to fix or buy back around 80,000 Audi, VW and Porsche vehicles with tainted 3-liter diesel engines.

Lawyers for car owners are due to submit the proposed deal to the San Francisco federal judge overseeing U.S. lawsuits by June 28.

Volkswagen AG has agreed to set aside at least $10 billion to resolve civil claims by the U.S. government and lawsuits by American car owners over diesel vehicles rigged to cheat pollution controls.

The probe has been slowed by the use of dozens of code words, including acoustic software, for the illicit technology Volkswagen used to turn off pollution controls when cars were on the road.