DETROIT-General Motors is considering retaining the G8 sedan, part of the discontinued Pontiac brand, and giving it to the Chevrolet division where it will be marketed as the new Caprice. MORE

CHATHAM, ON-No new contract talks are scheduled between CAW Locals 127 and 35 and Navistar Inc. Workers at the Richmond Street truck assembly plant are on a two-week paid summer shutdown. CAW Local 127 president Aaron Neaves said he wasn't aware of any plans to resume bargaining in the near future. MORE

ARLINGTON, TX-Workers are returning to the General Motors Assembly Plant here for the first time in nearly two months. The factory's 2,400 employees are set to be back on the assembly line today, welding and bolting together Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade sport utility vehicles. MORE

SHANGHAI-Volkswagen AG says vehicle sales in China and Hong Kong during the first half of this year jumped 22.7 percent from a year earlier, benefitting from a revival in the world's third-biggest economy. MORE

GRANADA, Spain-Solar Millennium has begun work on what is being billed as the largest solar plant in the world. MORE

POCATELLO, ID-Nordic Windpower USA Inc. is receiving a $16 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to help it expand its assembly plant in southeastern Idaho. MORE

EVERETT, WA-Boeing reportedly wants workers to promise they won’t go on strike before it commits to keeping all the company’s 787 Dreamliner assembly work in Washington. MORE

KANSAS CITY, MO-Smith Electric Vehicles has begun training supervisors in Great Britain for its new Kansas City assembly plant, but has pushed back the scheduled start of operations by a month. Bryan Hansel, the CEO, said about a dozen employees were in Britain being trained to manage the facility, planned for a vacant building at Kansas City International Airport. SEV U.S. Corp. plans to assemble battery-powered delivery trucks and expects to hire 120 people during the first phase of operations. MORE

WEAVERVILLE, NC-Baldor Electric Co. plans to expand its mechanical power transmission components manufacturing plant here. Over the next three years, the project will involve the investment of nearly $5 million and will add 32 or more highly skilled technical positions to the workforce which now numbers around 130. MORE

BIENNE, Switzerland-Luxury watchmaker Rolex is increasing the production capacity of its plant in Switzerland. MORE