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France suspends subsidised electric car scheme after surge

Feb 12, 2024 (AFP)

President Emmanuel Macron's administration launched the scheme in December 2023 to make electric vehicles affordable to low-income households and reduce carbon ...

California vandals light self-driving taxi on fire

Feb 12, 2024 (AFP)

The autonomous vehicle from tech firm Waymo, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, was targeted by a group of people apparently carrying fireworks from ongoi...

Japan's electric vehicle transition by 2035 may be insufficient to combat the climate crisis, but there are solutions

Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)

The team's analysis showed that along with the policy, the Japanese government must simultaneously work to increase production of clean energy, decarbonize the ...

A car-free Eiffel Tower zone? Paris mayor faces pushback

Feb 10, 2024 (AFP)

Thousands of tourists jostle every day to snap the Eiffel Tower from across the River Seine on the hill at Trocadero, with its magnificent gardens and a moderni...

Greta Thunberg expected at banned French anti-motorway protest

Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)

Thunberg is expected as part of an international delegation on Saturday at the site near the southwestern city of Toulouse, protest organisers the Cabanade grou...

Biden Administration invests $1.5 billion in clean buses

Feb 08, 2024 (UPI)

The new investment builds on previous clean bus investments and is designed to help replace America's fleet of aging buses, reduce air pollution, create jobs an...

Uber posts first annual net profit since IPO

Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)

Uber booked a net profit of $1.9 billion in 2023, compared with a loss of $9.1 billion in 2022, according to a statement. The earnings marked an important miles...

Electric cars can't advertise as 'zero emissions': UK body

Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)

"We understood that when electric vehicles were driven no emissions were produced," the Advertising Standards Authority wrote about a Google ad for BMW seen in ...

Australia to set fuel efficiency standards after decades of debate

Feb 04, 2024 (AFP)

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said a "New Vehicle Efficiency Standard" would be introduced by 2025, ending decades of footdragging and debate about the po...

Parisians vote in anti-SUV parking price referendum

Feb 04, 2024 (AFP)

Parisians voted 54.55 percent in favour of charging cars weighing 1.6 tonnes or more 18 euros ($19.50) per hour for parking in the city centre, or 12 euros furt...

Paris takes aim at SUVs with premium parking vote

Feb 02, 2024 (AFP)

The tall, heavy cars' higher output of pollution and increased threat to pedestrians have been put forward by Mayor Anne Hidalgo to justify the move, which foll...

China's BYD says Hungary factory to start making cars in 3 years

Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)

The company said it signed a "preliminary accord" to build the factory in Szeged, in southeast Hungary. BYD had announced its intention to build the factory in ...

China overtakes Japan as world's biggest vehicle exporter

Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)

Japanese giants such as Toyota and Nissan have been much more cautious than their Chinese counterparts like BYD on electric vehicles (EVs), banking instead on h...

Chinese EV giant BYD expects record net profit for 2023

Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)

The group said in an earnings preview that it expects net profit for last year to fall between 29 and 31 billion yuan ($4.1 to 4.4 billion dollars) -- an increa...

GM bets on e-vehicles with $1.4 bn investment in Brazil

Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)

"Our future is all electric," said the US auto giant's president for international operations, Shilpan Amin, after meeting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva i...

Tens of thousands sign up for French electric car leasing scheme

Jan 19, 2024 (AFP)

President Emmanuel Macron unveiled the plan on social media in December as part of efforts to reduce carbon emissions in France. Some 90,000 people have applied...

EU agrees tougher C02 curbs for trucks, buses

Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)

The preliminary accord, which still needs to be formalised before it becomes EU law, calls for climate heating carbon dioxide (C02) gases from those heavy vehic...

Hertz to shrink EV rental fleet over sluggish US demand

Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)

The rental car giant will sell 20,000 EVs in the United States, steering a portion of the funds to purchase "internal combustion engine vehicles to meet custome...

Honda unveils futuristic EV designs to hit US market in 2026

Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)

"We have gone back to basics and formulated the Honda 0 Series with a design for the new era," Shinji Aoyama, global vice president, said of the snazzy offering...

Uber, Kia sign electric vehicle partnership

Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)

In a joint press release, the two companies said they are committed to "collaborate on Kia's planned development and deployment" of its new series of electric v...