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Musk tells China data gathered by Teslas remain secret: report

Mar 20, 2021 (AFP)

The assertion from the head of the electric car maker followed a decision by the Chinese government to bar members of its military or employees of some state-ow...

Commercial truck electrification is within reach

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Los Angeles published a new s...

UK city where Romans bathed penalises polluting cars

Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)

But in the age of the car, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels, mainly caused by diesel and older petrol vehicles, regularly exceed legal limits. The toxic emissions ...

Israeli 5-minute battery charge aims to fire up electric cars

Mar 07, 2021 (AFP)

Ultra-fast recharge specialists StoreDot have developed a first-generation lithium-ion battery that can rival the filling time of a standard car at the pump. "W...

Honda launches advanced self-driving cars in Japan

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

The Legend is capable of adaptive driving in lanes, as well as passing and switching lanes under certain circumstances. The car also features an emergency stop ...

Snarl-ups to start-ups: Cairo's jams inspire tech solutions

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

With only three metro lines and overcrowded, run-down buses servicing the capital, public transport is stretched to its limits. "The problem of traffic in Great...

Uber spins off robot delivery unit of Postmates

Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)

A statement Tuesday from Serve said it had an unspecificed amount of seed funding from venture capital firm Neo with participation by Uber and other investors. ...

Volvo goes all-in on electric cars, online sales

Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)

Inspired and directly challenged by Elon Musk's pioneering Tesla brand, Volvo and others plan to ditch fossil fuel vehicles in the next few years as demand for ...

Driving on the cutting edge of autonomous vehicle tech

Feb 26, 2021 (SPX)

But the IAC has implications beyond the track. Stakeholders for the event include Sebastian Thrun, a former winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous v...

Toyota breaks ground on futuristic 'Woven City' for Japanese employees

Feb 26, 2021 (Sputnik)

Japanese automaker Toyota has broken ground on a new futuristic planned city for thousands of its employees on the site of a former factory in the shadow of Jap...

Nikola acknowledges some claims were inaccurate

Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)

The company said nine statements by Nikola or founder and former executive chairman, Trevor Milton, were "inaccurate in whole or part," according to a securitie...

Driverless bus hits streets of Malaga in southern Spain

Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)

The bus, which began running on Saturday, is equipped with sensors and cameras and links Malaga's port to the city centre on an eight-kilometre (five-mile) loop...

Volvo Cars and Geely Auto abandon merger plans

Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)

"Volvo Cars and Geely Auto have agreed on a wide-ranging collaboration that will maximise the strengths of the Swedish and Chinese automotive groups" but will p...

Waymo brings robo-taxis to San Francisco in new test

Feb 22, 2021 (AFP)

The move expands the testing for the autonomous vehicles, which have been in use in the Phoenix, Arizona area since 2017 by Waymo, formerly known as Google Car,...

VW, Audi car plants in Mexico hit by US power crunch

Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)

The Mexican government has appealed for a reduction in energy usage after around five million people in the north of the country suffered blackouts. Volkswagen,...

Daimler partners with Amazon on self-driving trucks

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

Daimler subsidiary Torc Robotics, which specialises in vehicle automation software, selected Amazon Web Services as a cloud provider for its upcoming truck test...

Ford launches $1-bn drive to go electric in Europe

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

The company said in a statement that "by mid-2026, 100 percent of Ford's passenger vehicle range in Europe will be zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-...

Electricity source determines benefits of electrifying China's vehicles

Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)

A team of Northwestern University researchers wondered if widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could help China avoid these deadly events. The answer?...

Jaguar car brand to go fully electric from 2025

Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)

Jaguar Land Rover, owned by Mumbai-based Tata Motors, will invest 2.5 billion ($3.5 billion, 2.9 billion euros) annually under its 'Reimagine' plan, which sees ...

Nissan says not in talks with Apple on self-driving cars

Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)

Apple's Project Titan is devoted to electric autonomous vehicles and has been in the works for several years -- but details of the venture have been kept under ...