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VW to recall nearly 2,000 cars in China amid scandal

Oct 12, 2015 (AFP)

Germany's Volkswagen on Monday announced a recall of nearly 2,000 vehicles in China -- the world's biggest auto market, where it is the top foreign brand -- in ...

Uber says will expand service to 100 Chinese cities

Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)

Car-hailing company Uber said Thursday it is planning to expand into dozens more Chinese cities within a year and invest $1 billion as it looks to ramp up marke...

Could candle soot power electric vehicles

Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)

Burning a candle could be all it takes to make an inexpensive but powerful electric car battery, according to new research published in Electrochimica Acta. The...

Dirt-cheap catalyst may lower fuel costs for hydrogen-powered cars

Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)

Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt - molybdenum d...

Scandal-hit VW needs more than a year to fix all cars

Oct 07, 2015 (AFP)

Volkswagen's new boss said Wednesday the auto giant would need more than a year to fix all its pollution-cheating cars, as the company suspended four employees ...

Toyota unveils self-driving car

Oct 06, 2015 (AFP)

Toyota Tuesday unveiled a car that can drive itself along a highway, the latest foray by a major manufacturer into the world of automated vehicles. The car, a m...

Deer-vehicle collisions increase during breeding season

Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)

Fall is prime breeding season for deer across Georgia. It's also when drivers are more likely to hit deer that run into the road, according to a new study from ...

Space for safer cars

Oct 01, 2015 (ESA)

A spacecraft tool is now improving car safety by stress-testing many of the internal computer systems to be sure they work well when the car is on the road. Des...

VW says probe into pollution scam to take months

Oct 01, 2015 (AFP)

Embattled auto giant Volkswagen said Thursday an investigation it has commissioned into its massive pollution cheating scandal would take several months, as Aus...

ORNL demonstrates road to supercapacitors for scrap tires

Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)

Some of the 300 million tires discarded each year in the United States alone could be used in supercapacitors for vehicles and the electric grid using a technol...

VW revs up recall plan, hunts for culprits in pollution scam

Oct 01, 2015 (AFP)

German auto giant Volkswagen shifted up a gear Wednesday in its plans to recall millions of cars fitted with pollution-cheating software as it boosted efforts t...

China to halve car purchase tax amid flagging sales

Sep 30, 2015 (AFP)

China said Wednesday it will halve purchase taxes on vehicles with small engines, in an attempt to boost sales in the world's largest car market where demand ha...

Auto CO2 emissions 40% higher than claimed: report

Sep 30, 2015 (AFP)

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars registered in Europe in 2014 were 40 percent higher on average than their manufacturers claimed, said a report promptin...

VW admits commercial vehicles involved in pollution scam

Sep 29, 2015 (AFP)

Volkswagen said Tuesday that 1.8 million of its commercial vehicles worldwide are fitted with the sophisticated software enabling them to cheat emission tests, ...

VW draws up refit plan for cars in pollution scam

Sep 29, 2015 (AFP)

Volkswagen on Tuesday revealed a plan to refit millions of vehicles affected by a worldwide pollution-cheating scam, as its new chief vowed to act ruthlessly to...

More auto tech could curb road accidents: researchers

Sep 29, 2015 (AFP)

New automotive safety technologies available today could sharply reduce road accidents in the United States, saving thousands of lives and billions in societal ...

Germany launches criminal probe against VW's ex-CEO

Sep 28, 2015 (AFP)

German prosecutors on Monday announced a criminal investigation against Volkswagen's former chief executive as the government pressed the embattled auto giant t...

Germany orders VW to set timetable on meeting pollution standards

Sep 27, 2015 (AFP)

German authorities has given scandal-hit Volkswagen an October 7 deadline to set out a timeline for bringing all its diesel cars in line with national pollution...

EU tightening auto emission tests to prevent cheating: sources

Sep 26, 2015 (AFP)

The European Union moved to change its diesel car emission tests to prevent the sort of rigging used by German auto giant Volkswagen after noticing discrepancie...

Tesla boss Musk calls for 'random emission' testing

Sep 25, 2015 (AFP)

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk on Friday called for fossil fuel-powered cars "to be tested at random," as German giant Volkswagen's worldwide pollution cheatin...