Our trip through the week’s stories, including a 401-hp Audi sedan, Mercedes-Benz’s promise to go all-electric, and an update on the never-ending chip shortage.

The 2020 Olympics (yes, they’re still calling them that) kicked off with an opening ceremony in Tokyo on Friday, but the games aren’t shaping up to be quite the end-of-pandemic celebration organizers had in mind when they decided last summer to push the start date back a year. Toyota announced Monday that it would not air Olympics-related commercials in Japan—where there is significant public opposition to the games—and CEO Akio Toyoda chose not to attend the opening ceremonies.
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