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Alphabet's Waymo raises $2.25 bn to rev up autonomous projects

Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)

Born in a Google lab devoted to big-vision new technology, Waymo became a subsidiary of Alphabet in 2016 -- and has been one of the tech giant's "other bets" th...

VW ditches natural gas to focus on e-cars

Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)

The VW group sold just 110,000 cars powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) worldwide last year, not enough to justify further investment, VW's head of developm...

Luxembourg becomes first country with free public transport

Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)

Some cities elsewhere have already taken similar, partial measures. But the transport ministry said it was the first time such a decision covered an entire coun...

VW strikes 'dieselgate' compensation deal with German consumers

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

"We and the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) have achieved a fair and verifiable settlement solution," VW board member Hiltrud Werner said. Th...

German carmakers warn virus to shrink China market

Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)

"It was a weak start to the year," VDA president Hildegard Mueller told a Berlin press conference, noting that sales in the first two weeks of February were dow...

Plastic shields protect China's ride-hailing drivers against virus

Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)

Zhao Haijun, a Didi Chuxing driver, says the shield helps isolate him from passengers, and prevents the virus being spread through droplets in the air. "Now, I ...

Tesla resumes work on German plant after court ruling

Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)

"The work has started again," said a spokesperson for Gruenheide, a municipality in the state of Brandenburg where the factory is to be built. On Thursday, a lo...

Virus-hit Jaguar rushes car parts to UK in suitcases: reports

Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)

"We have flown parts in suitcases from China to the UK," said JLR chief executive Ralf Speth, quoted by the FT and other British media. Speth said Jaguar Land R...

Beijing autoshow postponed due to coronavirus

Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)

More than 70,000 people have been infected by the epidemic, which started in central Hubei province and has spread across China. The outbreak has claimed 1,770 ...

Blame game over 830-mn-euro settlement in VW's German diesel cases

Feb 14, 2020 (AFP)

VW took the first shot, saying it had offered 830 million euros ($900 million) to consumer organisation VZBV but that "disproportionate" fee demands from its la...

Ants, bats and birds evicted for new German Tesla plant

Feb 14, 2020 (AFP)

Workers have started clearing a 92-hectare (227-acre) area of forest at the site in Gruenheide in Brandenburg state after Tesla received the green light from au...

Tesla shifts gears with plans to issue more shares

Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)

Tesla plans to raise slightly more than $2 billion by issuing 2.65 million shares of common stock, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Com...

GM Korea to suspend assembly line as virus hits parts supply

Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)

The coronavirus has killed more than 1,100 people and infected over 44,000 across mainland China, spreading to more than two dozen countries in what is now cons...

BMW aims to slash CO2 output by 20% in 2020

Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)

The pledge comes as new European Union regulations bite this year, requiring carmakers to sharply reduce fleet-wide emissions on pain of massive fines. "We will...

Volvo Cars and Chinese owner Geely plan to merge

Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)

The merged firm "would have the scale, knowledge and resources to be a leader in the ongoing transformation of the automotive industry," they said in a statemen...

Toyota extends China plant closure over virus

Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)

"After considering various factors including guidelines from local and regional governments... we've decided to continue our suspension of production at all Toy...

Coronavirus claims world's biggest capacity car plant

Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)

The five-plant network can make 1.4 million vehicles annually, in a coastal location facilitating importing components and exporting cars globally. But supply l...

Uber shares rev up as it drives toward profits

Feb 06, 2020 (AFP)

The San Francisco-based company still lost $1.1 billion on revenue that increased 41 percent to $3.7 billion when compared to the same period a year earlier. "2...

Coronavirus could close European factory: Fiat Chrysler

Feb 06, 2020 (AFP)

The prospective closure would be the first for a European car manufacturer. CEO Mike Manley said that four Chinese suppliers were affected by the coronavirus ou...

Autonomous delivery vehicle set to roll after getting US approval

Feb 06, 2020 (AFP)

The California-based firm said it was the first company granted approval for a self-driving vehicle exemption by the US Department of Transportation. Nuro said ...