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The U.S. needs at least twice as many charging points for EV

Oct 05, 2017 (UPI)

The U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates there are 16,000 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles nation-wide, with 4...

UK car sales skid lower in September on poor consumer confidence

Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)

New car sales fell 9.3 percent year-on-year to 426,170 vehicles in September, industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said in a stat...

Uber competitor hits Paris roads with Chinese help

Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)

The service, Taxify, already claims three million customers in 19 countries. "Paris is essentially dominated by one American company," CEO Markus Villig told AF...

US car sales get boost from hurricane recovery

Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)

The recovery in Texas and Florida from hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which destroyed hundreds of thousands of vehicles, helped the industry sell 1.52 million new ...

Trial pitting Waymo against Uber delayed a month

Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)

US district court judge William Alsup bumped the start of the trial here to December 4, granting a Waymo request to put it off so attorneys could dig into an in...

General Motors targets 20 all-electric models by 2023

Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)

The biggest US automaker said it will introduce within 18 months two new models built on the learnings of the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt, which was launched in...

Paris experiments with 'car-free day' across the city

Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)

Sunday marks the third time the French capital has experimented with a car ban, but it is by far the most ambitious with the zone set aside for pedestrians or c...

Tata wins bid to make electric cars for Indian government

Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)

State-owned energy efficiency services limited (ESSL) will procure 10,000 cars from Tata Motors, with the first batch hitting roads later this year, the company...

Rubber meets road for Pirelli's market comeback

Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)

The shares will be offered at 6.50 euros each on the Milan stock exchange in the initial public offering next week, Pirelli said in a statement. Some 35 percent...

German police arrest another Audi employee over 'dieselgate'

Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)

The arrest on Wednesday came after investigators searched two premises, a spokeswoman for the prosecution's office in the southern city of Munich told AFP. She ...

China delays electric car quota until 2019

Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)

Beijing announced plans earlier this month to phase out petrol vehicles by an unspecified date, but it has also been preparing rules to impose production quotas...

Electric car-sharing service to roll into Singapore

Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)

BlueSG, a subsidiary of France's Bollore Group, said that 80 cars and 30 stations where vehicles can be picked up and dropped off would be operational by the en...

James Dyson: Vacuum cleaner king turns to electric cars

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

The astonishing success of his bagless cyclone vacuum cleaners which he invented in the late 1970s have made him one of Britain's best-known businessmen and dra...

Carmakers face billions in European CO2 fines from 2021: study

Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)

"Only four out of 11 carmakers are forecast to meet the EU 2021 CO2 emission target, with the rest facing significant fines," researchers from British firm PA C...

Baidu announces $1.5 bln fund for autonomous driving

Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)

Over the next three years, the "Apollo Fund" will invest 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in over 100 autonomous driving projects, the company said in a press rel...

Dockless bike-share hits US capital, following craze in China

Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)

China-based giant Mobike and California-based LimeBike each began deploying hundreds of bikes, which have GPS location tracking and are unlocked with a smartpho...

China rises at Frankfurt car show

Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)

Two years after becoming a surprise hit at the last IAA with an electric sedan concept car to rival Tesla's Model S, Taiwanese upstart Thunder Power was back at...

'Car nation' Germany distrustful of driverless vehicles

Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)

Curious visitors to the biennial trade fair, which lasts until September 24, can entrust their lives to a computer on a specially created car at a test track ov...

In the future, roads could generate power from passing traffic

Sep 18, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at Lancaster University in England are working to develop materials that can be incorporated into asphalt and convert the rumbling vibrations of pas...

5,000 'Dieselgate' deaths in Europe per year: study

Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)

The numbers are in line with previous assessments of deaths due to the so-called "Dieselgate" scandal, which erupted when carmaker Volkswagen admitted in 2015 t...