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BMW's Mini apologises over Shanghai Auto Show's ice cream 'discrimination'

Apr 20, 2023 (AFP)

A video compilation posted on social media platform Weibo appears to show workers telling the Chinese visitor they were out of the dessert. Mini, which is owned...

Volkswagen says it will invest 1 bln euro in China EV centre

Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)

"The company is investing around EUR 1 billion in a new state-of-the-art development, innovation, and procurement centre for fully connected intelligent electri...

Electric vehicles are key battleground at Shanghai Auto Show

Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)

EVs make up a quarter of car sales in China, the world's largest car market, and dozens of new models from domestic and Western brands were unveiled at the coun...

Biden admin unveils tough emissions rules to speed electric auto shift

Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)

The proposed rules set aggressive standards for low greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, which aim to further speed the manufacturing and marketing of...

Walmart to add EV chargers to thousands of US stores

Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)

The US retail giant, which has EV chargers at a fraction of its US stores, plans to "build our own EV fast-charging network at thousands of Walmart and Sam's Cl...

Japan, land of the hybrid car, takes slowly to EVs

Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)

As markets from China to the United States race to put more EVs on their roads, the pedal is nowhere near the metal yet in Japan, where the hybrid still reigns ...

Annual net profit of Chinese EV giant BYD up 446%

Mar 28, 2023 (AFP)

China, the world's largest overall producer of greenhouse gases, plans for domestic car sales to be mainly made up of electric and hybrid vehicles by 2035. The ...

EU fossil fuel car ban gets final green light

Mar 28, 2023 (AFP)

The vote was a formality after ambassadors on Monday backed the milestone agreement. The majority of the bloc's energy ministers rubber-stamped the ban on Tuesd...

Advanced technologies for longer-lasting electric vehicles

Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)

Lithium metal batteries have been recognized as promising rechargeable batteries because lithium metal anode exhibits theoretical capacity 10 times higher than ...

EU backs fossil fuel car ban, as Berlin lifts veto

Mar 27, 2023 (AFP)

A spokesman for Sweden, which holds the EU presidency, said ambassadors backed the agreement. Energy ministers are expected to give the final green light on Tue...

The countries phasing out internal combustion engines

Mar 27, 2023 (AFP)

The 27-nation bloc joins more than a dozen other nations which have set deadlines for ending sales of new cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) which emit...

EU, Germany reach deal on fossil fuel car phaseout plan

Mar 25, 2023 (AFP)

A landmark deal to prohibit new sales of fossil fuel cars from 2035 is key to the bloc's ambitious plan to become a "climate-neutral" economy by 2050, with net-...

Even free transport can't shake Luxembourg's love of the car

Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)

Traffic permitting, it is barely an hour's drive from Weiswampach in the far north of Luxembourg near the German and Belgian borders to Dudelange in the south, ...

France-Germany tensions loom over EU leaders' summit

Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)

A row erupted between two of the European Union's biggest economies after Berlin upset some of its partners, notably France, by blocking -- at the last minute -...

France-Germany row overshadows EU leaders' summit

Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)

Existing strains deepened between the European Union's two biggest players after Berlin upset some of its partners by blocking -- at the last minute -- a landma...

Minimizing electric vehicles' impact on the grid

Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)

In a new study, MIT researchers have found that it's possible to mitigate or eliminate both these problems without the need for advanced technological systems o...

Porsche backs synthetic option in EU fossil fuels row

Mar 13, 2023 (AFP)

"We think e-fuels (synthetic fuels) can play a useful complementary role for a large number of existing cars and niche segments," Oliver Blume said at the prese...

VW joins e-car price war as global rivalry heats up

Mar 12, 2023 (AFP)

A new version of Volkswagen's flagship ID.3 electric car model will go on sale from the end of March for just under 40,000 euros ($42,000), the VW brand announc...

Germany angers EU after putting brakes on fossil fuel car ban

Mar 07, 2023 (AFP)

The planned ban is key to Brussels' push to make the bloc climate-neutral by 2050, with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Now, the German chancellor's scramble...

EU delays vote on fossil fuel car ban as Germany holds out

Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)

Ministers from the EU's 27 member states were expected to nod through the legislation at a routine meeting on Tuesday, after the European Parliament gave its ap...