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Ethics dilemmas may hold back autonomous cars: study
Jun 23, 2016 (AFP)
If it has to make a choice, will your autonomous car kill you or pedestrians on the street? The looming arrival of self-driving vehicles is likely to vastly red...
Volkswagen places question mark over future of diesel technology
Jun 21, 2016 (AFP)
Volkswagen chief Matthias Mueller hinted in a newspaper interview that the embattled car giant could abandon diesel engine technology in the wake of the massive...
Electric vehicles just starting to make a splash
Jun 21, 2016 (UPI)
Though electric vehicles are putting a dent in conventional energy demand, broader impacts aren't expected until at least 2020, a report finds. A report from co...
German prosecutors open probe into VW ex-boss
Jun 20, 2016 (AFP)
Volkswagen's former boss Martin Winterkorn is under investigation for having allegedly manipulated the market by holding back information about emissions cheati...
US authorities extend deadline for VW in 'dieselgate' scandal
Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)
US authorities have again extended a deadline for embattled German carmaker Volkswagen to present the details of its plan to compensate US car owners affected b...
Olli, a 3D printed, self-driving minibus, to hit the road in US
Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)
A new maker of self-driving vehicles burst onto the scene Thursday in partnership with IBM's supercomputer platform Watson, and it's ready to roll right now. Th...
China's Uber rival Didi Chuxing raises $7.3 bn in new capital
Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing, a bitter rival of US-based Uber, has raised $7.3 billion in one of the world's largest private equity financing rounds, t...
What's driving the next generation of green products?
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
If you purchased a Toyota Prius, you may have been driven by the desire to conserve the environment or to save yourself some money at the gas pump. But consumer...
China auto sales increase in May: industry group
Jun 13, 2016 (AFP)
Car sales in China, the world's top auto market, increased at a faster pace in May than the previous month, an industry group reported Monday, despite continued...
Car giants see road to riches in sharing
Jun 12, 2016 (AFP)
Auto giants are racing to invest in car- and ride-sharing services, lured by the prospect of fat profits yet to be tapped from a billion cars on the world's roa...
GM's Canada labs to develop self-driving car technology
Jun 10, 2016 (AFP)
General Motors announced plans Friday to hire 1,000 engineers and software developers at its Canadian research facilities near Toronto over the coming years to ...
Germany probes VW staffer for 'destroying proof' of fraud
Jun 09, 2016 (AFP)
German authorities investigating the Volkswagen pollution cheating scandal have opened a probe into a VW employee suspected of having destroyed evidence of the ...
Google co-founder fuels flying car labs: report
Jun 09, 2016 (AFP)
Google co-founder Larry Page has secretly poured more than $100 million into building flying cars, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Page has backed Zee.Aero while s...
New molecular design to get hydrogen-powered cars motoring
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
A radical new process that allows hydrogen to be efficiently sourced from liquid formic acid could be one step forward in making the dream of hydrogen-powered c...
Germany talks tough on auto emissions
Jun 07, 2016 (AFP)
Germany on Tuesday demanded tougher rules on controlling diesel car pollution in Europe as it blamed auto manufacturers other than Volkswagen of using defeat de...
GM wants to keep steering wheels, pedals in self-drive cars
Jun 07, 2016 (AFP)
General Motors chief executive Mary Barra came out strongly Tuesday for regulations requiring the retention of steering wheels and foot pedals in self-driving c...
EU ignoring diesel pollution despite VW scandal: NGO
Jun 06, 2016 (AFP)
European governments are turning a blind eye to over-polluting cars, an NGO report said on Monday, nine months after a scandal exposed emission test cheating by...
IEA finds electric vehicle use high in Asia and Europe
Jun 03, 2016 (UPI)
The global use of electric vehicles is on the rise, though more can be gained by referencing European and Asian policies, an IEA report found. The International...
Uber raises $3.5 bn from Saudi investment fund
Jun 02, 2016 (AFP)
Uber announced Wednesday that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia has pumped $3.5 billion into the ride-sharing giant, helping fuel its global expansion ...
Study shows tax on plug-in vehicles is not answer to road-funding woes
May 31, 2016 (SPX)
Given declining revenues from gasoline and diesel fuel taxes and the need for new ways of funding road infrastructure, state and federal policymakers are consid...
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