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Electric supercar race ends in a serious crash
Sep 13, 2014 (UPI)
An electric supercar flipped and flew through the air at Beijing's FIA Formula E Championship on Saturday. It was the first race of the championship that will g...
Moscow Plans to Install 150 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Sep 11, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
150 electric car charging stations are expected to be installed in Moscow by the end of the year, the Department of Transport reports. "Over the next years we h...
Carnegie Mellon's smart headlights spare the eyes of oncoming drivers
Sep 11, 2014 (SPX)
A smart headlight developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute enables drivers to take full advantage of their high beams without fear of blindi...
China fines Volkswagen affiliate $40.5 mn for price-fixing
Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)
An affiliate of German carmaker Volkswagen has been fined more than $40.5 million for price-fixing in China, authorities said Thursday, the latest company to be...
Tesla chief says self-driving cars just around corner
Sep 09, 2014 (AFP)
US electric car maker Tesla is developing technology that could see vehicles run on "full auto pilot" in as little as five or six years, according to its chief ...
Director sees road movie a fit for car culture-gripped China
Sep 08, 2014 (AFP)
Director Ning Hao has embraced the road movie genre, saying at the premiere of his "Breakup Buddies" at the Toronto film festival Sunday that it is a natural fi...
Ride-sharing could cut cabs' road time by 30 percent
Sep 04, 2014 (SPX)
Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity: The car-service company Uber was recently valued at $18 billion, and even as ...
Booming electric car sales under fire in Norway
Aug 31, 2014 (AFP)
Ministers in Norway -- a major and rich oil-producing country -- are under increasing public pressure to reduce perks and tax breaks for booming electric car sa...
Sweden court accepts receivership for Saab carmaker
Aug 29, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese-owned company set up to take over Saab's assets after the troubled Swedish carmaker's bankruptcy said on Friday it had succeeded in being placed in re...
France's Peugeot gets approval for China plant: report
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
French auto maker PSA Peugeot Citroen's fourth plant in China has been approved for the southwestern city of Chengdu by local authorities, the official Xinhua n...
How fast you drive might reveal where you are going
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
In our constantly connected, information-rich society, some drivers are jumping at the chance to let auto insurance companies monitor their driving habits in re...
EV consumers better off with a range under 100 miles
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
Until battery cost is cut down to $100 per kilowatt hour, the majority of U.S. consumers for battery electric vehicles (BEV) will be better off by choosing an e...
China fines Japanese auto parts firms $200 mn for monopoly
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
China has fined 10 Japanese auto parts firms more than $200 million in total for price-fixing, authorities said Wednesday, reportedly the biggest-ever such pena...
Uber pulls into mobile dining and travel apps
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
Uber teamed up with dining and travel smartphone applications Wednesday as the controversial Internet-age car-hailing service moved to park itself at the heart ...
Obama strategist jumps aboard controversial Uber app
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
A political strategist who ran US President Barack Obama's winning campaign in 2008 has hopped on board at controversial smartphone car-hailing service Uber. Th...
Japan's NSK says hit with $28.5mn fine by China regulators
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
Japanese auto parts maker NSK said Tuesday it had been hit with a $28.5 million fine for violating China's anti-monopoly laws, part of a wider crackdown that ha...
Mercedes-Benz accused of 'price-fixing': China media
Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)
China has accused Mercedes-Benz, a unit of German car giant Daimler, of price-fixing, state media reported, amid an anti-monopoly investigation into foreign car...
BMW's Chinese dealers fined over price-fixing
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
Four Chinese dealers for German auto maker BMW have been fined about 1.6 million yuan ($260,000), authorities have said, as the government steps up a high-profi...
Electric cars fail to rev up car-mad Germans
Aug 13, 2014 (AFP)
Germans are mad about cars and Germany is ranked the most fuel-efficient country on the planet, but when it comes to electric vehicles, Europe's top economy is ...
Saab car maker NEVS reported in default
Aug 12, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese-owned automaker NEVS, the owner of the Swedish brand Saab, is in default, a Swedish court said Tuesday after receiving a notice from an unpaid supplier....
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