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Fractional order modeling may reduce electric car drivers' anxiety

Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)

With rapidly diminishing fossil fuels, it's not impossible to imagine a future where most vehicles are powered completely by batteries. But to get there, scient...

Berlin tells Tesla: Stop ads with 'misleading' autopilot term

Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)

Germany wants Tesla to stop advertising the "autopilot" function on its cars because it leads to false customer expectations, as the system comes under scrutiny...

China auto sales up fastest in 3 yrs; GM buys into car-sharing biz

Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)

Auto sales in China, the world's biggest car market and crucial to worldwide manufacturers, grew at their fastest rate in three years in September, data from an...

Driverless cars hit British streets in landmark trial

Oct 11, 2016 (AFP)

Driverless vehicles carrying passengers took to Britain's streets for the first time on Tuesday in a landmark trial which could pave the way for their introduct...

Germany conducting inquiry into Tesla autopilot system

Oct 08, 2016 (AFP)

Germany said Saturday it was still investigating the operation of the autopilot system on cars made by electric automaker Tesla, as German media reported an int...

GM, U.S. Army unveil Colorado ZH2 tactical hydrogen vehicle

Oct 05, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. Army and General Motors debuted a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle this week during the annual Association of the United States Army symposium. The ...

Fisker relaunches electric car effort

Oct 04, 2016 (AFP)

Former BMW designer Henrik Fisker announced plans Tuesday to relaunch his electric vehicle efforts three years after a bankruptcy with his venture that made hig...

Scotland greens up public transportation

Oct 04, 2016 (UPI)

Scotland is getting a little greener with the planned addition of dozens of new public transportation options with lower emissions, the government said. The Sco...

VW says to pay US suppliers $1.2 bln over Dieselgate

Oct 01, 2016 (AFP)

German auto giant Volkswagen has agreed to pay US suppliers some $1.2 billion to settle claims emanating from the "Dieselgate" pollution scandal, the firm and s...

Tesla 'on autopilot' crashes on German Autobahn: police

Sep 29, 2016 (AFP)

A Tesla electric car crashed into a tourist bus on a motorway in northern Germany, police said Thursday, adding that the driver had claimed he had activated the...

Volvo partnership pays off in SuperTruck collaborative effort

Sep 28, 2016 (SPX)

Five years of effort by a partnership of international corporations and universities organized by Volvo have led to the Volvo SuperTruck, a vehicle that achieve...

Low-emissions vehicles cost less to drive, research shows

Sep 27, 2016 (UPI)

When electric and hybrid vehicles first came on the market, they were prohibitively expensive for many consumers. That's no longer the case. More modestly price...

Audi tech chief leaves after reports link him to 'dieselgate'

Sep 26, 2016 (AFP)

Audi's head of technical development stepped down "with immediate effect" on Monday, the luxury carmaker announced, after German media accused him of involvemen...

Paris bans cars along part of River Seine

Sep 26, 2016 (AFP)

Strollers and cyclists can breathe easy on the banks of the Seine after Paris on Monday approved a plan to ban cars on a long stretch of riverside road cutting ...

First test of driverless minibus in Paris Saturday

Sep 24, 2016 (AFP)

The French capital's transport authority will on Saturday carry out its first test of a driverless minibus, in the hope that regular routes for the hi-tech vehi...

Grab expands self-driving car trial in Singapore

Sep 23, 2016 (AFP)

Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing firm Grab on Friday teamed up with a US-based software developer to run a limited public trial of a self-driving car servi...

Investors ask German court for 8.2 bn euros over VW's 'dieselgate'

Sep 21, 2016 (AFP)

Volkswagen investors have filed 1,400 lawsuits seeking 8.2 billion euros in compensation from the car giant over its emissions cheating scandal, a German court ...

Tesla fixes Model S software after Chinese hack

Sep 21, 2016 (AFP)

Tesla said Wednesday that it had fixed a software vulnerability in its luxury electric Model S sedan after a Chinese security team hacked a car's systems and re...

Self-driving cars coming sooner than you think: Lyft

Sep 19, 2016 (AFP)

The move to self-driving cars is coming faster than most people think, says the head of ridesharing giant Lyft. Within five years, autonomous vehicles will acco...

Nearly 30 mn diesel cars on EU roads over emissions limit: study

Sep 19, 2016 (AFP)

One year after the Volkswagen "dieselgate" scandal, nearly 30 million cars on Europe's roads are still way over air pollution limits, campaign group Transport a...