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UK to ban sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040

Jul 26, 2017 (AFP)

Environment minister Michael Gove announced the move as part of the government's keenly-awaited 3 billion pound ($3.9 billion, 3.4 billion euro) air pollution p...

World gears up for electric cars despite bumps in road

Jul 26, 2017 (AFP)

Britain on Wednesday said it would "end the sale of all conventional petrol and diesel cars" by 2040, following similar proposals by France earlier this month t...

Cartel probe looms over German car industry

Jul 24, 2017 (AFP)

News weekly Der Spiegel reported Friday that German carmakers Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Daimler secretly worked together from the 1990s on car developm...

Audi voluntarily recalls up to 850,000 diesel vehicles

Jul 21, 2017 (AFP)

"Audi aims to maintain the future viability of diesel engines for its customers and to make a contribution towards improving air quality," the Bavaria-based man...

Volkswagen fined $154 mn more in US for dieselgate

Jul 20, 2017 (AFP)

The sum is on top of $533 million VW already paid to California in the so-called dieselgate conspiracy, in which software allowed cars to pass emissions tests, ...

Chinese bike-sharing startup aims at US with new model

Jul 18, 2017 (AFP)

Mobike this week brought a handful of the brightly-colored two-wheelers to showcase at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado. While many maj...

Daimler announces emissions recall of 3 mln diesel cars in Europe

Jul 18, 2017 (AFP)

It said it had already launched a service action for other models and that, "in order to effectively improve the emissions of additional model series, Daimler h...

Microsoft cloud to help Baidu self-driving car effort

Jul 18, 2017 (AFP)

The US software giant is one of more than 50 entities that have joined an Apollo alliance created by Baidu in April. Microsoft will enable alliance members to c...

Daimler manipulated emissions in one million cars: report

Jul 13, 2017 (AFP)

"The Stuttgart-based firm sold vehicles with higher levels of damaging emissions than allowed for almost a whole decade between 2008 and 2016, in Europe and the...

Forget defrosting your car at a glacial pace

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

So he developed one. Using what he calls "a very simple chemical recipe," Boreyko has found a way to defrost surfaces 10 times faster than normal. Boreyko, alon...

German 'dieselgate' investigators target Porsche employees

Jul 10, 2017 (AFP)

Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart, a car industry bastion, said in a statement they had opened a probe against "persons unknown working for the ...

Germany arrests Audi manager after US 'dieselgate' charges

Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)

The prosecutors did not name the manager, but according to news site Spiegel Online, he is Giovanni Pamio, who led a team of engineers responsible for designing...

Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

The research, Virtual Reality experiments investigating human behavior and moral assessments, from The Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnab...

France 'to end sales of petrol, diesel vehicles by 2040'

Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)

"We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040," Hulot said, calling it a "veritable revolution". Hulot acknowledged that reaching the ...

China starts regulating bike-sharing as complaints soar

Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)

The two metropolises have drafted rules that will require operators "to adhere to standards on production, operation and maintenance" of bicycles, Xinhua news a...

Baidu CEO's self-driving car stunt stumps police: media

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

The company's billionaire founder livestreamed himself catching a ride in a semi-autonomous car on the way to a conference for developers hoping to learn about ...

Volvo to phase out petrol-only cars from 2019

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

The Gothenburg-based group is the first major manufacturer to electrify all of its models and to set out a roadmap for the gradual end to the internal combustio...

Volvo to end gas-only cars in 2019

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

Volvo, owned by China's Geely, said it plans to launch five fully electric models between 2019 and 2021, three under its own brand and two under the Polestar br...

Hanoi to ban motorbikes by 2030 to curb pollution, traffic

Jul 04, 2017 (AFP)

Hanoi is famed for legions of motorbikes -- sometimes stacked with entire families or overloaded with deliveries -- that clog roads in a fast-growing city with ...

China police probe funding of 'traffic-straddling' bus

Jul 03, 2017 (AFP)

Footage of a prototype of the traffic-straddling vehicle driving down a short track in northern Hebei province while two cars drove underneath attracted global ...