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Study: Sound improves detection of electric cars for pedestrians

Nov 30, 2021 (UPI)

In the analysis, in which participants were asked to push a button upon hearing an approaching electric vehicle on an adjacent roadway, none of the tested vehic...

Nissan plans 50% electric vehicle sales by 2030

Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)

The move follows in the footsteps of other major global automakers, which have increasingly signalled a move towards electric and hybrid vehicles as concern abo...

Nissan touts 'pioneer' status with new electric vehicle targets

Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)

Speaking to AFP, Nissan number two Ashwani Gupta insisted the firm's electric vehicle (EV) targets were "progressive" and said he welcomed "healthy competition"...

Beijing asks ride-hailing giant Didi to delist from US: report

Nov 26, 2021 (AFP)

Over the past year, several of the country's biggest companies -- including Alibaba, Tencent and Meituan -- have been swept up in a regulatory crackdown that ha...

UK to make electric car charging points compulsory in new buildings

Nov 22, 2021 (AFP)

Johnson, fresh from hosting the COP26 climate change summit, told business leaders that he will legislate to compel charging points in new homes, supermarkets a...

Horiba Mira and GMV NSL collaborate on ESA project to improve road traffic efficiency

Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)

The ground-breaking project aims to advance platooning - the process of optimising the co-ordination of traffic streams - by embracing a number of advanced tech...

Prosecutors broaden probe into ex-Continental execs

Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)

Investigators are targeting former Continental CEO Elmar Degenhart, who left the group in 2020, citing health reasons, and Jose Avila, the former head of its en...

Biden electric car plan would boost Detroit, anger allies

Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)

Biden was expected to face awkward questions Thursday at a summit with his counterparts Mexico and Canada, who accuse the US president of protectionism, adding ...

GM factory launch ushers in Detroit's EV pickup campaign

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

The auto giant will unveil Factory Zero, a 36-year old plant in Hamtramck, Michigan that has been retooled for electric vehicles (EV), commemorating the occasio...

Uber resumes shared rides in US

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

The UberX Share option -- formerly called Uber Pool -- allows people to share rides with strangers at a reduced cost, and builds in precautions against the spre...

DoorDash takes aim at Europe with purchase of Wolt

Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)

The news came the same day DoorDash reported that its revenue grew 45 percent to $1.3 billion in the recently ended quarter but that its loss more than doubled ...

Top carmaker Toyota defends skipping COP26 emissions pledge

Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)

Ford, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors and Volvo Cars were among the auto giants that said they would "work towards reaching 100% zero emission new car and van sal...

Producers target 2040 end date for polluting vehicles

Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)

The announcement from climate summit host Britain vowed that signatories would strive to have only new sales of zero-emissions vehicles from 2040 and "by no lat...

Autonomous driving: Styrian development saves millions in test kilometers

Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)

"In the field of highly automated driving, however, driving simulator studies are often questioned because of the lack of realism. In addition, until recently t...

Battle the algorithms: China's delivery riders on the edge

Nov 07, 2021 (AFP)

A glitch meant it inaccurately registered him as being late and he incurred an automatic penalty -- one of many ways, he said, delivery firms exploit millions o...

Air taxis promised to fly above potholes of Rome

Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)

A new electric air taxi could be transporting passengers from Rome's Fiumicino Airport to the city centre within three years, according to German company Voloco...

Hybrid cars' green credentials under scrutiny

Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)

Sales of the cars, which use both a conventional combustion engine and a small electric motor, allowing owners to drive a few kilometres without emitting CO2, c...

Toyota ranked one of worst major automakers for emissions efforts

Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)

The campaign group gave Toyota and US-European firm Stellantis "F minus minus" grades for decarbonisation efforts including phasing out engines that burn planet...

Amazon-backed EV startup aims for valuation above $50 bn

Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)

The California-based company will price shares between $57 and $62, raising up to $9.1 billion at the midpoint price and all company stock at about $52.5 billio...

How robots can rule roads

Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)

They warn that strictly forbidding CAVs of various kinds to break existing traffic rules may hamper road safety, contrary to what most people may claim. However...