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Tesla shares fall on report plant expansion has been iced

Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)

Tesla Motors, which is led by Elon Musk, finished at $268.42, down 2.8 percent. Tesla and Panasonic froze a plan to boost capacity of the Gigafactory 1 battery ...

Uber steers toward blockbuster IPO as road looks rocky

Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)

Media reports said the ride-hailing giant is seeking to raise some $10 billion in what would be the largest stock offering of the year. That could result in a v...

Uber sets IPO in motion, seeks to 'ignite opportunity'

Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)

The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission contained no specific pricing or timing for the market debut for Uber, which according to media reports w...

A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars in sustainable mobility

Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)

A new study of the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars, formally known as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or VTOLs, finds that t...

Paris orders 800 new electric buses to fight smog

Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)

Three French engineering firms -- Heuliez Bus, Bollore and Alstom -- won the tender to supply the buses in deals worth up to 400 million euros ($450 million), t...

Engineers develop concept for hybrid heavy-duty trucks

Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers at MIT have devised a new way of powering these trucks that could drastically curb pollution, increase efficiency, and reduce or even eliminate...

London rolls out strict vehicle emission charges

Apr 08, 2019 (AFP)

The ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) charges certain polluting vehicles a 12.50 pounds ($16, 14.5 euros) fee to enter the centre of the British capital under mayo...

Dutchman ends 'world's longest electric car trip' in Australia

Apr 07, 2019 (AFP)

Wiebe Wakker drove his retrofitted station wagon nicknamed "The Blue Bandit" across 33 countries in what he said was the world's longest-ever journey by electri...

US judge orders talks between Tesla's Musk, securities regulators

Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)

The Securities and Exchange Commission had argued Musk should be held in contempt of court for allegedly violating an earlier settlement on tweeting potentially...

Low-bandwidth radar technology provides improved detection of objects

Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)

Until now, scientists have believed that radar accuracy and resolution are related to the range of frequencies or radio bandwidth used by the devices. But a new...

Germany finds truckers cheating to hide emissions

Apr 02, 2019 (AFP)

Of around 13,000 trucks whose "AdBlue" filter system was checked on German roads last year, 300 were "defective", a government answer to a parliamentary questio...

US investigating Kia, Hyundai over 'non-crash fires'

Apr 02, 2019 (AFP)

The incidents are linked to one death and more than 100 injuries to date, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) road transport...

More than half of new cars in Norway are electric

Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)

Of the 18,375 new vehicles registered in March in the country 10,728, or 58.4 percent were electric cars, according to the OFV Advisory Council for Road Traffic...

Volkswagen says it's responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions

Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)

"We have calculated how much the group represents among global CO2 emissions," said Michael Jost, Volkswagen's chief strategist told German business weekly maga...

Lyft IPO sets rollout for ride-hailing, sharing economy

Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)

The San Francisco-based firm expected to begin trading as soon as Friday at $72 a share, Lyft said in a released statement. "This is a clear, positive indicator...

Stanford autonomous car learns to handle unknown conditions

Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)

Tested at the limits of friction on a racetrack using Niki, Stanford's autonomous Volkswagen GTI, and Shelley, Stanford's autonomous Audi TTS, the system perfor...

New, more realistic simulator will improve self-driving vehicle safety before road testing

Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)

Their system, called Augmented Autonomous Driving Simulation (AADS), could make self-driving technology easier to evaluate in the lab while also ensuring more r...

Daimler and China's Geely join forces to build next-gen Smart car

Mar 28, 2019 (AFP)

Under the agreement, expected to be finalised by the end of the year, the new vehicle will go on global sale in 2022, the German and Chinese car giants said in ...

European Parliament agrees cut to emissions from new cars

Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)

The law, which was previously negotiated by EU member states, fixes a 37.5 percent carbon dioxide reduction target for 2030 compared with 2021. Emissions from n...

EU should build autos in US to avoid tariffs: Trump

Mar 22, 2019 (AFP)

In a televised interview Trump also denied that trade talks with China had hit a bump in the road, saying they were nearing a conclusion. The comments aired on ...