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Toyota to build Lexus EV plant in China: reports

Dec 24, 2024 (AFP)

The world's top-selling automaker aims to bring the factory online around 2027 and will operate it without a local partner, Japan's Nikkei business daily said, ...

France, Italy in push to scrap 2025 car emission fines

Dec 17, 2024 (AFP)

The issue was discussed at a meeting of European Union environment ministers in the Belgian capital, which came as the bloc's automotive industry is facing a de...

Malaysia launches first locally made electric vehicle

Dec 16, 2024 (AFP)

Proton -- which is backed by Chinese automotive giant Geely -- launched the e.MAS 7 SUV at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre in Kuala Lumpu...

Chinese firms take on EV truck challenges

Dec 15, 2024 (AFP)

The domestic supply chain and low-price strategy that helped make China's EV car industry world-leading are being leveraged by established automakers and start-...

NASA Gives The World a Brake

Dec 13, 2024 (SPX)

During the pandemic shutdown, Jonathan Lee, structural materials engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, got to thinking about d...

'Part of Bogota's soul': how Colombia fired up the car-free movement

Dec 13, 2024 (AFP)

Architect Jaime Ortiz Marino got permission to shut down a section of roads and -- with 5,000 other two-wheeler radicals -- pedaled down the middle of the stree...

China's Baidu, Geely say 'huge changes' in EV landscape behind cuts

Dec 13, 2024 (AFP)

"Due to huge changes in the industry's competitive landscape, the established business plan could not be executed and operations have encountered challenges," t...

EU conservatives seek to stall 2035 combustion engine ban

Dec 11, 2024 (AFP)

The EU's 27 states reached a historic agreement on phasing out new petrol and diesel cars as part of ambitious efforts to combat climate change, with sales to b...

Breakthrough in EV battery monitoring with advanced random forest algorithm

Dec 10, 2024 (SPX)

The RF model delivers significantly enhanced accuracy and robustness over existing techniques, notably outperforming the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM). Rigorou...

BMW boss sees no need to delay EU emissions targets

Dec 09, 2024 (AFP)

From 2025, the European Union is lowering the average emissions that new vehicles sold in the bloc are permitted to produce, with carmakers facing hefty fines i...

Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started

Dec 06, 2024 (SPX)

MIT engineers say that the search for better car designs can speed up exponentially with the use of generative artificial intelligence tools that can plow throu...

GM announces more than $5 bn hit to earnings in China venture

Dec 04, 2024 (AFP)

Facing heavy competition in China that has forced automakers to cut retail prices, the SAIC General Motors Corporation is restructuring operations, resulting in...

Moving towards economical decarbonization in transport

Dec 04, 2024 (SPX)

In 2022, transport in Switzerland accounted for 13.6 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, representing 41% of the nation's total emissions, excluding international ...

Vietnam pushes electric motorbikes as pollution becomes 'unbearable'

Dec 04, 2024 (AFP)

Trung, 19, is one of a growing number of Generation-Z workers driving an e-bike trend in the communist nation where 77 million -- largely petrol -- motorbikes r...

Germany charges ex-Continental execs over 'Dieselgate'

Dec 04, 2024 (AFP)

In 2015 auto titan Volkswagen admitted installing software to rig emissions levels in millions of vehicles worldwide, setting off one of Germany's biggest post-...

From China woes to EV troubles, VW faces rocky road

Dec 02, 2024 (AFP)

From high costs to management missteps and slowdowns in key markets, here are some of the key challenges facing the German car giant: - High costs - Europe's bi...

Stockholm ban on petrol, diesel cars put on hold

Nov 29, 2024 (AFP)

The Swedish capital was aiming to become the first city in the world to reserve some 20 blocks of an upmarket shopping district for "zero-emission" vehicles on ...

Uber and Bolt unveil women-only service in Paris

Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)

The "Uber by Women" option, available from Thursday, comes at no extra cost but with potentially longer waiting times. Uber launched a similar scheme in other E...

Volkswagen to sell operations in China's Xinjiang

Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)

The firm will sell its factory in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi as well as a test track in Turpan to a Chinese company, a spokesperson said, citing "economic reason...

Volkswagen says to sell operations in China's Xinjiang

Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)

The firm will sell its factory in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi as well as a test track in Turpan to a Chinese company, a spokesperson said in a press release. Righ...