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Aug 07, 2019 (AFP)

The San Francisco-based Uber rival said its loss in the second quarter more than tripled from a year ago to $644 million including stock compensation expenses. ...

Lyft suspends e-bikes after battery fires

Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)

"Because the safety of our riders is our number one concern, we are temporarily making the e-bike fleet unavailable to riders while we investigate and update ou...

Automakers reach emissions deal with California, in rebuff to Trump

Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)

California negotiated the agreement with Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW in secret, and said it provided a 50-state solution that would avoid a patchwork of reg...

Rat brain offers insights to engineers designing self-navigating cars, robots

Jul 25, 2019 (UPI)

Neuroscientists have long theorized that a region of the brain called the hippocampus houses maps of different locations. Scientists suggests these map memories...

Car boom brings gridlock misery to 'green and happy' Bhutan

Jul 24, 2019 (AFP)

But booming car sales may impact efforts to preserve its rare status as a carbon negative country -- and an increase in traffic is testing the good humour of it...

GM's Cruise delays launch of robo-taxis

Jul 24, 2019 (AFP)

Cruise continues to work toward the goal, but will not have a service operating by the end of this year as originally planned, according to an online post by th...

China's BAIC takes 5% stake in Daimler: German carmaker

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

Daimler, which produces the luxury brand Mercedes-Benz, has long worked with BAIC in China and has previously said it was possible that BAIC could purchase a st...

'Smartphone zombie' halts Vienna driverless bus test

Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)

The woman had been wearing headphones and looking at her phone when the accident happened on Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Austrian capital's public transport...

Barcelona mayor opens door to congestion charge

Jul 17, 2019 (AFP)

Introducing a road toll like those already operating in London and other European cities "is one of the measures which we have on the table", Ada Colau said dur...

Ford, Volkswagen join forces on the new frontier of electric autos

Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)

The German and US auto giants announced they were expanding their alliance, accelerating cooperation among otherwise competing global automakers as they face en...

Choking India gets first fully-fledged electric car

Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)

The Kona Electric SUV will cost $36,000 -- more than three times the price of the cheapest combustion-engine SUV and more than eight times dearer than a regular...

From princes to undertakers, Norway's motorists go electric

Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)

In Oslo, a funeral home offers the dearly departed a trip to their final resting place in an eye-catching electric hearse, as electric vehicles take over the ro...

Electric scooters: not so eco-friendly after all?

Jul 06, 2019 (AFP)

The companies -- from multinationals to local start-ups -- distributing them insist the omnipresent two-wheel vehicles are a boon for the environment and a curb...

Tel Aviv takes a ride to scooter 'paradise'

Jul 05, 2019 (AFP)

He uses them all week, including on Saturdays, the weekly Sabbath or Jewish day of rest, when no public transport is allowed. "There is no public transport and ...

E-scooters: a transport 'tsunami' flooding cities worldwide

Jul 05, 2019 (AFP)

The timing was perfect, with the city struggling with a botched revamp of its main bike-sharing service that left countless frustrated users looking for a new f...

Automated forklifts elevate firms' profit hopes

Jul 03, 2019 (AFP)

Amid social angst about computers and robots taking people's jobs "AGVs", or automated guided vehicles, represent a shift of new tech from factory production li...

Paris bans old diesels to tackle pollution

Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)

Diesel vehicles over 18 years old and petrol vehicles over 21 years old are already banned in Paris -- a measure that was extended Monday to a new "low-emission...

Uber buys AI firm to advance push on autonomous cars

Jun 26, 2019 (AFP)

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the ride-hailing giant said some 40 employees from the Seattle-based firm would join Uber's advanced technology...

Boost for space technology essential to keep UK in first place for future of auto industry

Jun 24, 2019 (SPX)

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) will transform travel with safer, smoother and smarter road journeys through high levels of automation facilitated by b...

Renault-Nissan team up with Waymo for driverless mobility services

Jun 20, 2019 (AFP)

With the high cost of manufacturing driverless vehicles, auto firms are looking primarily at using them for use as transportation as a service such as currently...