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Swiss students break world record for electric car acceleration

Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)

Students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences designed and built the "Mythen" vehicle tha...

Slovenia floods force VW to curb production

Sep 11, 2023 (AFP)

VW has cut shifts at its flagship Wolfsburg plant in northern Germany, where the Golf and Tiguan models are manufactured. Production has also been trimmed at it...

At Munich auto fair, movie-projecting cars and a bike wash

Sep 09, 2023 (AFP)

Here are some key takeaways from this week's Munich auto fair IAA, one of the world's biggest. - Movie-projecting Chinese cars - Carmakers, in particular those ...

Climate activists block Dutch motorway in major protest

Sep 09, 2023 (AFP)

Police deployed water cannon against some of the activists, who have threatened a permanent blockade of the motorway, vowing to "stay or come back every day" un...

Swedish opposition slams government tax cut on petrol

Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)

The right-wing government, in power since October 2022 and backed for the first time by the far-right Sweden Democrats, announced Thursday it would cut taxes on...

Self-driving car revolution is coming, but slowly

Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)

But while the number of coloured balls placed in the "yes" column shows no shortage of enthusiasm, experts say the long-promised future of autonomous cars remai...

Italy postpones regional ban on old diesel vehicles

Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)

The region of Piedmont had blamed pressure from the European Union for its plans to introduce a daytime, weekday ban on so-called Euro 5 standard vehicles in Tu...

Modern cars are a data privacy 'nightmare' says study

Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)

The California-based Mozilla Foundation reviewed 25 car brands and said none of them fully satisfied its standards on privacy and that no other product category...

Tesla, Chinese brands take centre stage at Munich car show

Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)

The industry-wide shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) was on full display on the opening day of Germany's biennial IAA mobility show, one of the world's large...

Tesla, Chinese EV brands jostle for limelight at German fair

Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)

Chancellor Olaf Scholz will officially inaugurate the IAA mobility show, held in Germany every two years, on Tuesday. But carmakers used Monday's press preview ...

Chinese carmakers confront European industry at Munich show

Sep 01, 2023 (AFP)

Elon Musk's Tesla, usually a hold-out from such events, will also make an appearance at the show in Munich, joining the jostle to steal the spotlight from Europ...

In Africa first, Uber launches electric motorcycles in Kenya

Sep 01, 2023 (AFP)

President William Ruto announced the initiative with African startup Spiro just days before he hosts the first Africa Climate Summit in the Kenyan capital Nairo...

Glitch halts Toyota factories in Japan

Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)

The world's top-selling automaker said the "malfunction in the production order system" occurred during the daytime on Monday and forced stoppages starting Tues...

London vehicle pollution toll zone expands despite controversy

Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)

The city's mayor Sadiq Khan is pressing ahead with the road charging scheme's politically charged extension across Greater London despite a fierce backlash from...

China EV giant XPeng to buy rival for more than $740 million

Aug 28, 2023 (AFP)

Founded in the southern province of Guangdong in 2015, XPeng is one of dozens of Chinese startups to emerge in recent years to take advantage of the boom in ele...

Chinese electric carmaker BYD triples half-year profit

Aug 28, 2023 (AFP)

BYD posted a net profit of 10.95 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) for the January-June period, up almost 205 percent year-on-year, the group said in a statement to t...

London businesses weary as vehicle pollution toll zone expands

Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)

The extension of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to all of Greater London on Tuesday has sparked a wider public backlash as Britons grapple with a cost-of-li...

From wow to new normal: driverless cars cruise the streets of San Francisco

Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)

Katherine Allen climbs into a white Jaguar, which then pushes out carefully into the traffic in a busy neighborhood crisscrossed by jaywalkers and cyclists. The...

Vietnam's VinFast targets US electric car market

Aug 16, 2023 (AFP)

Here's what we know about VinFast and its push to make it in the crowded EV market: What is VinFast? VinFast is Vietnam's first homegrown car manufacturer. It h...

Vietnamese electric car maker VinFast debuts on Nasdaq

Aug 15, 2023 (AFP)

Shares of VinFast, trading under the ticker "VFS," jumped more than 31 percent to $28.90 shortly after midday, after entering the market at $22 a share. Prior t...