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Tesla's 'mass market' $35k electric car ready to order, online

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

The announcement fulfills a vision of Tesla founder and chief Elon Musk, who has touted a more affordable electric car as part of his vision of weaning drivers ...

Lyft races ahead of Uber to Wall Street listing

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

The initial public offering (IPO) filing offered the first glimpse of Lyft's finances and showed the San Francisco firm lost $911 million on $2.2 billion in 201...

Amazon steers further toward autos, hires GM executive

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

The tech group's new executive is Alicia Boler Davis, who has been head of GM's global manufacturing operations. Amazon had no immediate comment on the hiring o...

Tesla says its $35k electric car ready to roll

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

The announcement fulfills a vision of Tesla founder and chief Elon Musk, who has touted a more affordable electric car as part of his vision of weaning drivers ...

German carmakers team up to tackle 21st Century challenges

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

Munich-based BMW and Stuttgart's Daimler have been locked for years in a near neck-and-neck race to top sales charts in the global luxury car market. But on Thu...

UK car output slumps on China slowdown, Brexit: data

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

In a gloomy plot twist, James Bond's favourite carmaker Aston Martin revealed plans to set aside up to 30 million ($40 million, 35 million euros) to help weathe...

Ford launches probe into actual emissions of its vehicles

Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)

"In September, a handful of employees raised a concern... regarding the analytical modeling that is part of our US fuel economy and emissions compliance process...

Top German court backs VW owners in 'dieselgate' opinion

Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)

"In the case of a vehicle delivered to the buyer with an illegal defeat device... the presence of a material defect can be assumed," the Federal Court of Justic...

Lyft set for March market debut: report

Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)

The report said Lyft's documents for its initial public offering may be made public next week to allow the listing by late March. That would enable Lyft, whose ...

Porous carbon fiber research one step closer to use in automotive industry

Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)

Guoliang "Greg" Liu, an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science and a member of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute, has been working on ...

EU reaches provisional deal to limit truck emissions

Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)

The European Parliament and the European Council, which represents the 28 member states, struck the provisional agreement after months of tough negotiation. The...

Porsche risks fine in new legal tussle over diesel cheating

Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)

"We have opened an administrative proceeding (against Porsche AG) at the end of which a court could impose a fine," a spokesman for the Stuttgart prosecutor's o...

Amazon invests in electric vehicle startup Rivian

Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)

Details of Amazon's stake in US-based Rivian were not disclosed, but the company said it will remain independent. The potential Tesla rival late last year unvei...

Risk Analysis releases special issue on social science of automated cars

Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)

Autonomous vehicles are more than just an improvement on existing vehicles, they are a brand new technology. The widespread acceptance and adoption of autonomou...

Giving keener 'electric eyesight' to autonomous vehicles

Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)

Sub-terahertz wavelengths, which are between microwave and infrared radiation on the electromagnetic spectrum, can be detected through fog and dust clouds with ...

Teaching self-driving cars to predict pedestrian movement

Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)

Data collected by vehicles through cameras, LiDAR and GPS allow the researchers to capture video snippets of humans in motion and then recreate them in 3D compu...

UN eyes rule for automatic emergency braking systems in new cars

Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe said around 40 countries had so far agreed to a draft UN regulation for Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AE...

SoftBank fund invests big in self-driving deliveries

Feb 11, 2019 (AFP)

The $940 million in financing from SoftBank brought the total amount of funding raised by Nuro to more than $1 billion, with investors including Greylock Partne...

Amazon invests in self-driving car startup Aurora

Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)

The funding round for Aurora Innovation led by Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Sequoia reportedly valued the startup launched just two years ago at mo...

Injuries pile up with e-scooter craze: survey

Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)

The nonprofit consumer magazine said its tally, based on reports from hospitals and emergency officials, is incomplete and does not include four reported fatali...