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Shares of Fiat Chrysler surge on report of Chinese suitors

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

US-traded shares of FCA were up 8.3 percent at midday at $12.57 after the trade publication Automobile News reported that Chinese companies were eyeing Fiat Chr...

Uber board spat over ex-chief Kalanick goes public

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

On Monday, a major investor fired off a message to Uber employees explaining why it filed suit last week against founder Kalanick, accusing him of covering misd...

Czech Republic aims for nation-wide vehicle charging points

Aug 11, 2017 (UPI)

The European Commission found a Czech plan to spend $52 million over the next six years on building recharging and refueling stations for vehicles that run on e...

Electric vehicles to eat into global oil demand by 6 million barrels

Aug 09, 2017 (UPI)

In what was described as a carbon-constrained scenario, the new report, prepared in coordination with GTM Research, which covers the global electricity sector, ...

Intel set to roll out 100 self-driving cars

Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)

A day after closing the $15 billion deal to buy Mobileye, which specializes in driver-assistance systems, Intel said it will begin rolling out fully autonomous ...

VW offers discounts against dirty old diesels

Aug 08, 2017 (AFP)

The VW brand said it would offer buyers trading in an old diesel a discount on cars meeting the latest Euro 6 emissions standard, ranging from 2,000 euros ($2,3...

Electric car startup Faraday Future signs factory deal

Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)

The company, whose backers include the head of the financially strapped Chinese tech group LeEco, said its new facility will be in Hanford, California, roughly ...

BMW sticks to cautious forecast as profits shift up

Aug 03, 2017 (AFP)

Net profit at the group reached 2.2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) between April and June, a 13.6-percent increase compared with the same period last year. Operat...

Global momentum underway for electric vehicles

Aug 03, 2017 (UPI)

Two million electric vehicles were on the road globally last year, though nearly all of those were in China, the European Union and the United States. A report ...

China issues bike-sharing guidelines as complaints rise

Aug 03, 2017 (AFP)

Jointly issued by the Ministry of Transport and nine other ministries and agencies, the guidelines urged cities to come up with plans for integrating use of the...

Germany's car bosses bid to head off diesel ban with software patch

Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)

In a bid to head off threats by major cities to partially ban diesel vehicles in their fight against deadly smog, bosses of auto groups Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW...

Beijing aims to expand electric bus fleet

Aug 02, 2017 (UPI)

Zhong Qianghua, the deputy managing director for the Beijing Public Transport Group, said each new electric bus in Beijing would eliminate about 45 tons of carb...

Diesel at cross-roads as Germany's car bosses, politicians meet

Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)

With major cities also eyeing partial bans on diesel vehicles to fight deadly smog, the sector with more than 800,000 jobs in the balance desperately needs a st...

IMF: Auto industry facing EV learning curve

Aug 01, 2017 (UPI)

A review of trends in the electric vehicle market from the IMF found that, in the four years ending in 2015, the pace of growth in EV sales was 120 percent. Usi...

Is 'diesel summit' the last chance for Germany's favourite engine

Jul 30, 2017 (AFP)

The "national diesel forum" takes place in Berlin on Wednesday amid renewed suspicions of emissions-fixing and a clamour for diesel-powered vehicles to be banne...

Tesla begins delivering 'Model 3' car for the masses

Jul 29, 2017 (AFP)

An initial batch of the 'Model 3' cars that rolled out of the Tesla plant in Fremont, California late Friday were given to customers, most of whom were employee...

Los Angeles to have fully electric bus fleet by 2030

Jul 28, 2017 (AFP)

Authorities in the US metropolis said the project, which involves the purchase of 2,200 vehicles, would cost some $1 billion over the next ten years. "Today's v...

Volkswagen to refit 1 million more diesel cars in Germany

Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)

At an industry-government summit on August 2, Volkswagen "will offer to refit four million vehicles and thereby significantly reduce emissions" chief executive ...

Berlin pressures automakers as scandals pile up; 22,000 Porsches recalled

Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)

"Yet more of the trust between the car industry and consumers, but also between carmakers and politicians has been destroyed," Environment Minister Barbara Hend...

Sophisticated medical imaging technique proves useful for automotive industry

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

"We have demonstrated, for the first time, through OCT and our image analysis approach, we are able to quantitatively and automatically measure the size, number...