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Cars driving the rebalancing of Chinese economy: IEA

Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese consumers are getting behind the wheel more, spurring a heady increase in petrol demand, a sign that consumer spending is helping the slowing Chinese po...

Germany feels heat in EU car coolant row

Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)

The EU said Thursday it was taking court action against Germany for failing to force luxury automaker Daimler to use a new air-conditioning coolant deemed less ...

China November car sales hit record high: industry group

Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)

Auto sales in China, the world's largest car market, jumped to a record high in November, an industry group said Thursday, as a vehicle purchase tax cut by the ...

Volkswagen says pollution cheating dates back to 2005

Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)

Volkswagen said Thursday the roots of its massive pollution-cheating scandal go back to 2005, and while the current situation was difficult, it would not break ...

Mystery electric car startup unveils $1 bn US factory

Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)

A little-known California startup with ambitions to challenge Tesla in the electric car market unveiled plans Thursday for a $1 billion manufacturing plant. Far...

UAW halts strike at China-owned US auto plant

Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)

More than 3,000 workers at a Chinese-owned auto supplies plant in Saginaw, Michigan returned to work Wednesday after the powerful UAW union halted a strike pend...

Global bicycle ownership has halved in 30 years

Dec 08, 2015 (SPX)

It's time for us to get on our bikes if we want cycling to make an impact as a sustainable mode of transport. New research published in the Journal of Transport...

S. Korea unveils ambitious green car push

Dec 08, 2015 (AFP)

South Korea unveiled Tuesday an ambitious plan to dramatically increase the production of environmentally friendly cars by 2020, as part of global efforts to cu...

Eliminating 'springback' to help make environmentally friendly cars

Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)

Manufacturing safe and lightweight cars that emit less carbon dioxide could become easier thanks to a clever new engineering development from researchers at Hir...

GM to sell China-made vehicle in US first

Dec 05, 2015 (AFP)

General Motors says it will sell in the United States next year a vehicle made in China, becoming the first major US automaker to do so. The move was quickly de...

Lyft allies with Asia peers in Uber challenge

Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)

US ridesharing service Lyft on Thursday announced an expansion of its alliances with Asian partners in a move that ramps its challenge to Uber. Lyft , which in ...

VW needs to be more modest, new CEO says

Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)

Volkswagen, the German carmaker engulfed in a massive pollution-cheating scandal, needs to show a bit more modesty, its new chief executive, brought in to solve...

Helsinki to make cars superfluous by 2050

Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)

For years this port city on the edge of the Baltic has been considered one of the greenest in Europe. Now Helsinki wants to go a step further and make cars unne...

Tesla races into third position in innovation survey

Dec 02, 2015 (AFP)

Electric car star Tesla has joined Apple and Google at the top of an annual ranking of innovative firms by Boston Consulting Group. Tesla raced into third posit...

Volkswagen India to recall 323,700 cars over emissions scandal

Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)

Volkswagen India on Tuesday announced that the company will recall around 323,700 cars in the country in the wake of an emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen h...

French carmakers top European list of low CO2 emitters

Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)

French manufacturers topped the list of European cars and vans with the lowest carbon emissions, the European Environment Agency said in a report published on T...

Hong Kong pollution in the spotlight at smart car show

Nov 25, 2015 (AFP)

Asian countries are running out of time to combat air pollution, campaigners said Wednesday, as smart car firms converged in Hong Kong to promote clean energy v...

German prosecutors say probing VW staff for tax evasion

Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)

Staff at auto giant Volkswagen are under investigation for tax evasion in a case linked to the German company's massive emissions cheating scandal, prosecutors ...

VW says it has fixes for 90% of emissions scandal cars in Europe

Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)

German auto giant Volkswagen, mired in a massive emissions cheating scandal, said Monday that it has found technical solutions for more than 90 percent of the v...

Tesla taking orders for $80,000 electric SUV

Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)

Tesla on Tuesday began taking orders for its Model X electric sport utility vehicle with a starting price of $80,000. The Model X price can quickly ramp with ex...