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Volkswagen in UK court over 'dieselgate'

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

Law firm Slater and Gordon began a three-day hearing for a group litigation order in what could be the largest consumer action in British legal history, it said...

Waymo and Jaguar team up on self-driving luxury ride

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

Waymo's latest alliance came as Uber's testing of self-driving cars in the US is on hold due to one of the vehicles being in an accident last week that killed a...

Arizona puts brakes on Uber self-driving car tests

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

Arizona governor Doug Ducey sent Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi a letter saying he has directed transportation department officials to suspend Uber's ab...

In a first, EU to review emissions to heavy-duty vehicles

Mar 27, 2018 (UPI)

The European body said it would work on agreements to monitor emissions of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, and consumption from trucks, buses and coach...

Electric vehicle use in Norway accelerating

Mar 22, 2018 (UPI)

Statistics Norway, the government's record-keeping agency, reported there were 142,490 total electric cars registered in the country at the beginning of the yea...

Pedestrian's death raises concerns over driverless cars

Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)

Now, as they start to hit the road in the real world, thorny questions are mushrooming over their safety, and around the legal and ethical challenges they pose....

German prosecutors raid BMW in diesel emissions probe

Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)

"On suspicion of fraud in around 11,400 cases, prosecutors have opened an investigation against unidentified workers or managers at BMW and raided BMW headquart...

China's bike-share app Ofo raises $850 mn to expand overseas

Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)

Ofo, whose lemon-yellow bicycles are ubiquitous in Chinese cities, said on the social network Weibo that it had raised $866 million dollars. The consortium of i...

VW boss 'convinced of diesel renaissance'

Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)

"I don't only hope that diesel won't be talked to death, I am convinced that diesel is experiencing a renaissance," Matthias Mueller told journalists in Berlin....

VWs using more diesel, failing pollution tests after recalls: study

Mar 12, 2018 (AFP)

VW admitted in 2015 to equipping about 11 million cars worldwide with "defeat devices", which allowed them to deceive emissions laboratory tests but emit up to ...

Big switch: Electric cars put China on automobile map

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

The diesel scandal in 2015 in which Volkswagen admitted manipulating 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide to fool pollution tests only briefly dented the firm's...

Japan car giants team up to build hydrogen stations

Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)

Toyota, Nissan and Honda formed a joint venture with major gas and energy companies, including French industrial gases company Air Liquide, to build 80 new hydr...

Profits, doubts in equal measure at Geneva Motor Show

Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)

"Geneva really ought to have been a lovely salon," says, with heavy irony, Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of German-based Center Automotive Research of Europe...

Infineon, SAIC set up electric car joint venture in China

Mar 02, 2018 (AFP)

Infineon said in a statement it will hold a 49-percent stake in the new Shanghai-based company, SAIC Infineon Automotive Power Modules (SIAPM), which will make ...

Rome to ban diesel cars from 2024: mayor

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

Virginia Raggi, a member of the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) made the pledge during an address to women mayors from around the world at the Women4Climate c...

Car-mad Germany anxious as court to rule on diesel bans

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

Judges at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig last Thursday adjourned over the weekend, saying they needed more time to "deliberate very thoroughly" on ...

German court paves way for diesel driving bans

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig found that local authorities can legally ban older, dirty diesels from certain zones as part of their efforts to imp...

Huawei's AI-powered smartphone drives a Porsche

Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)

The Porshe avoided several obstacles, including a dog and a bike, as it drove in a straight line to demonstrate the AI-powered object recognition technology in ...

Germany cleared for greener public transit

Feb 26, 2018 (UPI)

The commission found German plans for an $86 million support scheme for electric buses and related charging infrastructure is in line with environmental goals a...

Chinese billionaire Li Shufu buys biggest single stake in Daimler

Feb 23, 2018 (AFP)

Li, who chairs auto giant Geely Automobile Holdings, bought a 9.69-percent stake in the carmaker, worth around 7.2 billion euros ($8.9 billion), according to th...