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Carmakers brace for shocks as electrified future looms

Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)

Electric vehicles are the stars of this year's show, with premium brands like Mercedes and Audi finally jumping into the fray, but the promise of self-driving c...

Tesla meets Model 3 target, bemoans China tariffs

Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)

The electric automaker, which has been shaken by CEO Elon Musk's recent antics and legal woes, also announced it had met a key auto production target. The compa...

Daimler chief says company can't be a 'behemoth'

Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)

"We are a 160 billion euro company... and we are in an industry which is going through at least a transformation, some people even talk about a disruption," Zet...

SAIC-GM to recall 3.3 million vehicles over suspension flaw

Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)

The automaker says that US president Donald Trump's trade war with Beijing has severely affected its business in the world's second largest economy -- the compa...

Germany to present plan for polluting diesel cars

Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)

After Chancellor Angela Merkel and key ministers deliberated late into Monday night, her conservative CDU/CSU alliance and coalition partners the Social Democra...

Decision looms for Berlin on diesel refits

Oct 01, 2018 (AFP)

Three years have passed since Volkswagen's 2015 admission to installing cheating devices in 11 million vehicles worldwide, allowing them to secretly spew far mo...

Musk escapes the worst, but Tesla still faces a bumpy road

Sep 30, 2018 (AFP)

Those traits contributed to fraud charges brought against Musk on Thursday by federal regulators, a potentially serious blow coming just as Tesla is ramping up ...

Late to the party, German carmakers join race against Tesla

Sep 29, 2018 (AFP)

Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen's Audi and Porsche subsidiaries between them control some 80 percent of the worldwide premium car market. But un...

US regulators charge Tesla CEO Elon Musk with fraud

Sep 28, 2018 (AFP)

Musk tweeted August 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automaker at $420 a share, causing a brief spike in Tesla's share price. The SEC s...

Uber to pay $148 mn over data breach it concealed

Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)

The agreement stems from a breach affecting some 57 million Uber riders and drivers disclosed by the California company, prompting litigation that was eventuall...

Ford CEO warns tariffs cut $1 bn in profit: report

Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)

Hackett said the global automaker could face more damage if the trade confrontations were not resolved quickly. "The metals tariffs took about $1 billion in pro...

Drivers for Uber, Lyft see incomes fall as participation jumps

Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)

The report by US banking giant JPMorgan Chase, based on deposits received by the bank, offers a sobering note on the so-called platform or "gig" economy, althou...

Ford executive says may boost production in China to avoid tariffs

Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)

Joseph Hinrichs, Ford's executive vice president for global operations, said he did not see any easy resolution to the trade dispute between the United States a...

Drivers see red over Oslo's green 'war on cars'

Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)

"We have to give the city back to the people, so children can play safely, so elderly people can have more benches to sit on," argues Hanna Marcussen outside Os...

VW to stop doing business in Iran: Bloomberg

Sep 20, 2018 (AFP)

The accord was reached Tuesday after weeks of talks between the German auto giant and the administration of President Donald Trump, said Richard Grenell, the US...

EU targets BMW, Daimler, VW in pollution cartel probe

Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)

Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said BMW, Daimler and VW are suspected of agreeing "not to compete against each other on the development and roll-ou...

Eying Uber, China's Didi launches in Mexico's second city

Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)

Didi Chuxing rolled out trial operations in the Mexican city of Toluca in April, and has also launched in the country's third-largest city, the northern industr...

Tesla confirms criminal probe into Musk talk of going private

Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)

Shares skidded as word spread of a criminal investigation triggered by Musk's Twitter comments. Tesla shares ended the formal Nasdaq trading day down 3.35 perce...

Renault-Nissan alliance takes Google Android for a drive

Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)

Under a deal with web giant Google, the Renault-led group -- the world's largest auto alliance by sales volume -- will begin incorporating the most widespread o...

Paris, Brussels call for car-free day in Europe

Sep 15, 2018 (AFP)

The call came in a joint statement by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her counterpart in Brussels, Philippe Close, in which the two pointed to "the urgency of clim...