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China's CATL to build first EU electric car battery plant in Germany

Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)

The factory will be the only such manufacturing site in all of Europe, noted Merkel at a press conference with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang following talks...

China's Baidu rolls out self-driving buses

Jul 04, 2018 (AFP)

CEO Robin Li watched the 100th vehicle roll off a production line of a factory in the southeastern city of Xiamen. "2018 marks the first year of commercialisati...

Lyft pushes into bikes with new acquisition

Jul 02, 2018 (AFP)

Terms of the deal were not announced for Motivate, which operates bike programs in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Washington and elsewhere. "Lyft and Motivate...

Volkswagen to stash cars at Berlin's problem airport

Jun 27, 2018 (AFP)

"In this case, our normal logistics spaces aren't enough," a Volkswagen spokesman told AFP on Wednesday, saying the firm faces delays to emissions tests on betw...

Lyft value jumps to $15.1 billion in new funding round

Jun 27, 2018 (AFP)

The financing round is being led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, and has been joined by Senator Investment Group. The Lyft valuation is slightly more...

China's Didi steps up challenge to Uber with Australia push

Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)

Didi Chuxing claims to be the world's leading mobile transportation platform with more than 450 million users, and its latest expansion is part of attempts to r...

New tool will help protect animals from harmful hues of transport lights

Jun 25, 2018 (SPX)

The team of biologists surveyed select species around the world to determine how the hues of modern light-emitting diode (LED) lamps affect wildlife. They found...

First investor complaint filed against Daimler over 'dieselgate'

Jun 23, 2018 (AFP)

The complaint, filed Friday at the Stuttgart Regional Court by German law firm Tilp, accuses Daimler of "various market manipulations" since 2014 and having ign...

Electric scooter-sharing moves into the fast lane

Jun 22, 2018 (AFP)

Fast enough to be declared a nuisance and kicked off the streets of San Francisco and a handful of others cities to allow local officials to mull regulations. A...

Daimler cuts profit forecast, blaming US-China tariffs

Jun 20, 2018 (AFP)

"Fewer than expected SUV sales and higher than expected costs -- not completely passed on to the customers -- must be assumed because of increased import tariff...

Could this material enable autonomous vehicles to come to market sooner?

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

Within the air, infrared light - within a specific range called mid-wave infrared - scatter much less compared to other visible or other infrared light waves. I...

Audi names interim CEO after boss arrested in diesel probe

Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)

"The supervisory board of Audi AG has decided to transfer the duties of the board of management chairman (chief executive) to Abraham Schot on a temporary basis...

Audi boss arrested in diesel probe

Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)

The dramatic development comes a week after Munich prosecutors raided Stadler's home after charging him with fraud and falsifying documents that allowed diesel ...

VW says will pay 1 bn euro German fine over emissions cheating

Jun 13, 2018 (AFP)

"The Braunschweig public prosecutor issues an administrative order against Volkswagen AG in the context of the diesel crisis and imposes a fine of EUR1 billion ...

MIT study helps driverless cars change lanes more like humans do

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation tomorrow, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will...

Fleet of autonomous boats could service cities to reduce road traffic

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable City Lab in the Department of Urban Studies and Plannin...

Self-driving cars must reduce traffic fatalities by at least 75 percent to stay on the roads

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

To answer this question, researchers employed an expressed-preference approach - a method that has not previously been employed in this setting - to determine t...

Germany hits Mercedes with mass diesel recall

Jun 12, 2018 (AFP)

"The federal government will order an immediate official recall because of illegal defeat devices," Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said in a statement. The ...

New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk says

Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)

Musk's comments come amid a race by automakers and tech firms to roll out fully autonomous vehicles, but also rising concerns about the safety of robotic system...

Chinese electric carmaker Byton raises $500 mn to take on Tesla

Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)

Byton's new capital is led by from FAW Group, Tus-Holdings, CATL and others, a statement from its North American headquarters in California said Monday. "The su...