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EV maker Polestar passes 50,000 cars sold per year

Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)

Polestar, which is co-owned by Sweden's Volvo and China's Geely, is aiming to challenge US-based Tesla in the high-end electric car market. The joint venture, w...

Musk eyes torrid growth at Tesla, but offers no big new reveals

Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)

Reviewing the company's quickly expanding electric vehicle (EV) production, Musk and a team of executives promised more outsized growth through streamlined manu...

Ford to resume F-150 Lightning manufacturing on March 13

Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)

Ford suspended production soon after the February 4 fire, which involved a pickup truck that was undergoing standard inspection. A Ford spokeswoman said there w...

Ford halts output of F-150 Lightning through at least next week

Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)

The auto giant halted production and deliveries of the pickup trucks after identifying a battery issue during a standard inspection of a vehicle prior to delive...

White House unveils deal with Musk on EV chargers

Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)

Tesla has agreed to make at least 7,500 chargers nationwide open to non-Tesla EVs by the end of 2024, according to a White House fact sheet laying out its lates...

German court dismisses Greenpeace's case against Volkswagen

Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)

The plaintiffs, the two heads of Greenpeace Germany and climate activist Clara Meyer, had also sought to force the world's second-largest carmaker to reduce emi...

EU to ban fossil fuel cars, slash truck and bus emissions

Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)

European Union member states have already approved the legislation on cars and vans and they will now formally nod it into law, but much debate lies ahead on pr...

Helping transit agencies visualize the transition to electric bus fleets

Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)

With funding from a National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) "Translate Research to Practice" grant, a team of University of Utah (UU) resea...

Compact, non-mechanical 3D lidar system could make autonomous driving safer

Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)

In Optica, Optica Publishing Group's journal for high-impact research, investigators led by Susumu Noda from Kyoto University in Japan describe their new nonmec...

Trimble technology to help power Nissan's latest Driver Assist

Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)

While positioning with standard Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals may drift up to 10 meters (25 feet), Trimble RTX provides higher accuracy and ...

Volvo Cars profits rise despite 2022 'turbulence'

Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)

Like other automakers, Volvo Cars faced supply chain problems, Covid lockdowns in China and higher costs amid soaring inflation. But its net profit rose by almo...

Uber reports surge in Q4 revenues, offers bullish outlook

Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)

The Silicon Valley giant made more than two billion trips in a quarter for the first time, transporting nearly one million riders per hour in the quarter ending...

Researchers propose a fourth light on traffic signals - for self-driving cars

Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)

"This concept we're proposing for traffic intersections, which we call a 'white phase,' taps into the computing power of autonomous vehicles (AVs) themselves," ...

Battery electric trucks emit 63% less GHG emissions than diesel

Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)

To reach the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming below 2C, Europe needs to urgently decarbonize its trucks and buses, the highest emitting vehicles o...

Electric trucks produce far fewer emissions than diesel: EU report

Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)

The transport sector accounts for about 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, the biggest contributor in the bloc. Heavy vehicles like t...

Spain court rules against Amazon over freelance drivers

Feb 03, 2023 (AFP)

The Madrid labour court said in Thursday's ruling that these workers were "false freelancers" who should have been tied to the US firm with work contracts. It a...

Electric cars gain record market share in Europe

Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)

Battery-powered electric cars accounted for 12.1 percent of new car sales, compared to 9.1 percent in 2021 and 1.9 percent in 2019, according to the European Au...

Electric car sales gain pace despite hurdles

Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)

But challenges remain around their production, affordability and whether enough infrastructure can be put in place to persuade drivers to make the switch. - Chi...

Arctic cold 'no sweat' for electric cars in Norway

Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)

Tesla owner Philip Benassi has experienced it on cold winter days, but like other Norwegians, he has learned to cope with it. With temperatures often falling be...

Spain's Menorca gets green light to limit cars

Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)

The text passed by the assembly grants the government of the tiny Mediterranean isle the power to limit the entry of "all types of motor vehicles" to prevent it...