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Self-driving bus to shuttle Bavarian townsfolk

Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)

The test route for the self-driving machine is in Bad Birnbach, set in the rolling hills of the southeastern state Bavaria not far from the Czech and Austrian b...

Oklahoma frustrated by ruling against alternative vehicle fees

Oct 25, 2017 (UPI)

The state chapter of the Sierra Club filed a claim against a House measure that would put a yearly fee of $100 per on electric cars and a $30 fee on hybrids. Sl...

Study: Millions of miles of planned roads shouldn't be built

Oct 24, 2017 (UPI)

The majority of planned new roads are slated to be paved through high-rainfall tropical and subtropical areas, mainly in developing countries. The areas are oft...

Delphi boosts self-driving efforts with $400 mn deal for nuTonomy

Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)

Delphi, a former General Motors unit now headquartered in Britain, said the deal was valued at $400 million, with another $50 million possible in incentive paym...

Singapore to freeze number of cars on its roads

Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)

The growth cap for all passenger cars and motorcycles will be cut from 0.25 percent a year to zero with effect from February, the Land Transport Authority (LTA)...

Tesla to build wholly-owned Shanghai plant: WSJ

Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)

The Silicon Valley electric carmaker's wholly-owned manufacturing facility would be built in Shanghai's free-trade zone, the Wall Street Journal said, quoting u...

Lyft gets $1 bn from Google parent to rev up challenge to Uber

Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)

Lyft said the new funding gives it a valuation of $11 billion as it steps up competition against Uber, reeling from a series of missteps and scandals which have...

Baidu to hit the road with self-driving bus

Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)

Baidu is collaborating with an array of companies on autonomous cars, and is working with a large bus maker in China to have a self-driving bus running a route ...

President Duterte threatens iconic Philippine 'jeepney'

Oct 17, 2017 (AFP)

The flamboyantly-decorated but smoke-belching vehicles were originally converted from surplus World War II US army jeeps but now largely use reconditioned diese...

Norway seeks 'Tesla tax' on electric cars

Oct 12, 2017 (AFP)

Electric cars, which have hitherto been exempted from heavy taxes imposed on other vehicles, accounted for 20 percent of new registrations in the Nordic country...

Paris wants to phase out diesel cars by 2024

Oct 12, 2017 (AFP)

Mayor Anne Hidalgo's office said the goals -- which are more ambitious time-wise than a government plan to end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 -- wo...

Tesla recalls Model X vehicles for seat fix

Oct 12, 2017 (AFP)

Internal testing revealed that cables in second-row fold-flat seats in 2016 and 2017 model year vehicles might need to be adjusted to "ensure the safety" of tho...

Slovenia sets tough emissions limits for cars

Oct 12, 2017 (AFP)

"From 2030 we will not allow the registration of traditional fuel cars like those that are in use today," Bojan Zlendar, infrastructure ministry spokesman, told...

California to allow autonomous cars without driver

Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)

A revised regulation which could take effect in 2018 would eliminate a provision in an earlier draft that required "physical control by a natural person sitting...

Vehicle emissions per driver on the rise, study finds

Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)

The Transportation Resource Institute at the university said its eco-driving index, which measures the amount of greenhouse gas emissions per individual driver,...

EV corridor will stretch from Norway to Italy

Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)

With $11.6 million in funding from the European Commission, the German company and service provider CLEVER said they'd link the countries connecting Norway to I...

Renault plans China growth, more electric vehicles

Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)

Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn said he aimed for annual sales of 5 million vehicles by 2022 -- a 44-percent increase on the 3.47 million units sold in 2016 -- and rev...

Japan's Denso unveils $1 bn investment in US for electric cars

Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)

The investment is expected to create 1,000 new jobs at Denso's facility in Tennessee, according to the company. "This is an investment in the future of Denso, a...

Two intelligent vehicles are better than one

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

This can, for example, extend the field of view of a car that is behind another car. Using simulators and road tests, the team has developed a flexible software...

Battery technology keeping electric car adoption in the slow lane

Oct 05, 2017 (UPI)

While production bottlenecks are frustrating for Tesla investors -- and the some 500,000 deposit holders waiting for their cars -- that's not what's keeping ele...