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'Dieselgate' fallout leads to score-settling at Volkswagen

Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)

Volkswagen's "dieselgate" crisis turned personal this week, as the German auto giant's patriarch and ex-boss Ferdinand Piech implicated his successors in the ch...

China jails ex-chairman of auto giant FAW for bribery

Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)

The former chairman of Chinese auto giant FAW was jailed Thursday for taking more than a million dollars in bribes, in the latest penalty meted out to a top exe...

Germany, France plan cross-border self-driving test zone

Feb 08, 2017 (AFP)

European neighbours Germany and France plan to test self-driving vehicles on a stretch of road linking the two countries, the transport ministry in Berlin said ...

Volvo Cars posts strong earnings on record sales

Feb 08, 2017 (AFP)

Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars, owned by Chinese group Geely, said Wednesday it posted a healthy profit rise in 2016, boosted by record sales and stronger finances...

Luxembourg prosecutes unknown person in VW scandal

Feb 07, 2017 (AFP)

Luxembourg has filed a criminal case against an unknown person in an unusual step related to the Volkswagen "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal. The duchy i...

Pedal power revival as bike-share apps race for glory

Feb 05, 2017 (AFP)

Unlock them with an app, drop them off anywhere, and nip past lanes of stationary car traffic: the humble bicycle is seeing a revival in China as a new generati...

Chinese, Mexican automakers team up to make SUVs

Feb 02, 2017 (AFP)

China's JAC Motors and a Mexican firm are teaming up to invest $212 million in a plant to produce sport-utility vehicles in central Mexico, officials said Wedne...

Dieselgate drags on for VW and Bosch with new payouts

Feb 01, 2017 (AFP)

German carmaker Volkswagen and auto parts supplier Bosch on Wednesday announced payouts to US buyers of vehicles affected by the "dieselgate" scandal, in a bid ...

Daimler to supply self-driving cars for Uber

Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)

German auto giant Daimler on Tuesday said it had struck a partnership with Uber to supply self-driving cars for the US ride-hailing company. The tie-up comes as...

German prosecutors say probing former VW CEO for fraud

Jan 27, 2017 (AFP)

German prosecutors said Friday they were investigating Volkswagen's former chief executive Martin Winterkorn on suspicion of fraud over the "dieselgate" emissio...

Paris experiments with driverless buses

Jan 23, 2017 (AFP)

Paris began its first experiment with driverless buses on Monday, with city officials saying they were eager to prepare for the coming "revolution" of autonomou...

Society set for head-on collision with driverless cars

Jan 20, 2017 (AFP)

Evangelists for driverless cars see a bright future coming down the road: thousands of lives saved, countless driving hours freed up, cityscapes transformed wit...

US closes probe into fatal Tesla autopilot crash, no defect found

Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)

The US Transportation Department closed Thursday its investigation into a fatal crash involving a Tesla car on autopilot, saying no defects were found in the sy...

VW ex-boss denies prior knowledge of pollution cheating

Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)

Former Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn said Thursday that he did not know the beleaguered German auto giant was engaging in systematic emissions cheating unti...

New Zealand stimulates electric vehicle market

Jan 19, 2017 (UPI)

New Zealand's government said Thursday it was setting aside more than $2 million to help stimulate the electric-vehicle market in the country. Energy and Resour...

German MPs to grill VW ex-boss over 'Dieselgate'

Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)

Disgraced former Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn faces a grilling by German lawmakers Thursday, as accusations grow of top executives at the beleaguered auto ...

Bikeshare cycles dumped en masse in China

Jan 17, 2017 (AFP)

More than 500 bicycles from China's flourishing bike-sharing companies have been dumped in huge piles on the streets of the southern city of Shenzhen, reports s...

Oslo temporarily bars diesel cars to combat pollution

Jan 16, 2017 (AFP)

Oslo will ban diesel cars from the road for at least two days this week in a bid to combat rising air pollution, angering some motorists after they were urged t...

China 2016 auto sales surge at fastest in three years

Jan 12, 2017 (AFP)

Auto sales in China, the world's biggest car market, surged at their fastest in three years in 2016, an industry group showed Thursday, jumping nearly 14 percen...

New technology will cut plug-in hybrid fuel consumption by one third

Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)

Engineers at the University of California, Riverside have taken inspiration from biological evolution and the energy savings garnered by birds flying in formati...