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China offers Elon Musk permanent residency

Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)

Musk was in China for the ground-breaking of Tesla's first overseas factory, which will allow it to sell vehicles directly in the world's largest market for ele...

Fiat Chrysler to pay $515 mn in US 'dieselgate' settlements

Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)

The auto giant will recall and repair more than 100,000 diesel vehicles sold in the United States at a cost of about $185 million. The remaining funds will go t...

China's passenger car sales fall for first time in years

Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)

Passenger car sales fell to 22.4 million vehicles in 2018, down 5.8 percent from a year earlier, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on ...

For auto tech at CES, user experience becomes the key

Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)

Carmakers and tech firms are refining the systems for self-driving navigation and safety. But with full autonomy still likely years away, there is a growing int...

Hyundai shows off walking car project

Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)

Hyundai showed off its Elevate project on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show gadget extravaganza, billing it an unprecedented "Ultimate Mobility Vehicle" ...

Nonprofit groups join industry in self-driving campaign

Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)

Joining in the announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were tech firms including Intel and Nvidia, automakers such as General Motors and Daim...

Sidestepping trade war, Musk breaks ground on Tesla Shanghai plant

Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)

The plant in a Shanghai suburb is Musk's biggest overseas move yet and will eventually have an annual production capacity of 500,000 vehicles, Tesla says, drama...

Buzz grows on 'flying cars' ahead of major tech show

Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)

Well, sort of. The prototypes won't be soaring over the Las Vegas Strip during the technology extravaganza which runs from January 8-11. But a number of flying ...

German court opens way for diesel case against Daimler

Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)

Multiple shareholders in the luxury carmaker argue that their investment was harmed by the "dieselgate" scandal and that they deserve compensation as a result. ...

GM and DoorDash to deliver food with self-driving cars

Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)

A pilot program with the US automaker's Cruise Automation division will start in March, according to the San Francisco-based startup launched in 2013 by Stanfor...

372,000 German drivers join legal action against Volkswagen

Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)

Hundreds of thousands of people signed up to the collective action between late November and January 2, a spokeswoman for the Federal Office of Justice told AFP...

Clean energy leader Costa Rica turns attention to electric cars

Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)

But in the automotive industry, it is lagging behind with just 600 out of 1.4 million private vehicles running on electricity rather than petrol or diesel. Expe...

China bike-sharing pioneer Ofo hits the skids

Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)

Bright orange, yellow and blue shared bikes have flooded the sidewalks of major Chinese cities for the past two years as the sector's main rivals Ofo and Mobike...

Daimler, BMW win green light for car-sharing merger

Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)

In a joint statement, the companies said they had received the green light from US regulators, removing the last obstacle to the deal after EU anti-trust author...

DNV GL forecasts rapid growth of electric vehicles: 50% of all new cars sold globally by 2033 to be electric

Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)

These are the findings of DNV GL's annual Energy Transition Outlook, which provides a forecast of the global energy landscape up to 2050. Statistics from the Wo...

Uber filed paperwork for IPO: report

Dec 08, 2018 (AFP)

The move comes one day after rival Lyft launched the process to take the company public with a stock offering. The Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with...

Trump administration's fuel efficiency rollback 'deeply flawed': study

Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)

In August, the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed relaxing the tough standards favored by former presid...

Lyft launches first step to take company public

Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)

However, Lyft -- whose main competitor Uber also wants to enter the stock market -- has not released any details on the initial sales price or the number of sha...

Luxury 'Red Flag' models buck China auto sales slump

Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)

Beloved by Chairman Mao Zedong, the luxury car -- "Hongqi" in Chinese -- is getting a new lease of life as President Xi Jinping makes a push for national econom...

Volkswagen says next generation of combustion engine cars to be its last

Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)

The carmaker, which last month announced a 44 billion euro ($50 billion) electric offensive by 2023, said it would phase out its diesel and petrol cars as it lo...