EPA To Scrap Fuel Efficiency Rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce in the coming days that it will be rolling back the fuel economy targets for cars and SUVs—a move that Continue Reading
EPA chief to sign fuel economy determination this weekend: sources
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will sign a final determination by Sunday which will begin a months-long effort to weaken US fuel economy standards and likely set off Continue Reading
Hitachi, Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE testing plug-in vehicles as renewable energy storage for office buildings
Hitachi Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office Continue Reading
China Auto Exec on Self-Driving Cars: ‘You Can’t Just Put Some Sensors on Top’
China has made self-driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to slow those efforts Continue Reading
EV Battle Heats Up Amid Trump Tariffs
Electric vehicle makers have largely relied on aluminum to make their cars lighter in hopes of offsetting the weight of the battery pack and reducing overall weight in order to Continue Reading
Chinese electric carmaker sets up US assembly plant
SF Motors has become the latest Chinese-owned company to unveil plans to break into the US electric vehicle market, at a time when a growing tech threat from China has Continue Reading
Waymo Orders Up to 20,000 Jaguar SUVs for Driverless Fleet
As Uber Technologies Inc. reels from a fatal crash involving one of its autonomous vehicles, rival Waymo is moving ahead, buying as many as 20,000 Jaguar vehicles for its robot Continue Reading
NVIDIA introduces DRIVE Constellation simulation system for testing autonomous vehicles in the cloud
NVIDIA has introduced a cloud-based system for testing autonomous vehicles using photorealistic simulation, creating a safer, more scalable method for bringing self-driving cars to the roads. NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation is Continue Reading
Hyundai union head fears GM-like crisis; says electric cars destroy jobs
Hyundai Motor’s ( 005380.KS ) union chief warned its workers may face a similar crisis to the one hitting General Motors’ ( GM.N ) South Korean unit as sales in Continue Reading
Driving An Electric Vehicle Is Far Cleaner Than Driving On Gasoline
Driving an electric vehicle (EV) has obvious climate benefits: zero tailpipe emissions. But because EVs are charged by power grids that burn fossil fuels, they aren’t necessarily zero-carbon. An EV’s Continue Reading
Auto Dealers Worry New Vehicle Prices May Be Getting Too High
As the automotive industry braces for changes including electrification and autonomy, dealers across the U.S. are worried about something much simpler: the price of a new car. After decades of Continue Reading
Diesel new vehicle market share in Europe in February dropped to 39.5%; SUVs still driving growth
European car registrations increased by 4.2% to 1.16 million, 50,000 more than in February 2017. The results mark the highest February volume since 2008, when 1.19 million cars were registered, Continue Reading
U Waterloo team develops novel variable valve actuation system; 58% less energy use than cam-driven valvetrain
A team at the University of Waterloo has developed a novel variable valve actuation (VVA) system, optimized to pursue minimum energy consumption and minimum sensitivity of the valve lift to Continue Reading
Beijing releases licenses for self-driving car road testing
Beijing issued temporary license plates for Baidu’s self-driving vehicles for public road testing on Thursday. The capital has opened 33 roads of a total length of 105 kilometers for autonomous Continue Reading
Is Tesla In Crisis?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is facing a series of headache-inducing calamities as he pushes to transform the electric carmaker from niche player to mass-market manufacturer with the Tesla Model 3. Continue Reading
Electric vehicle use in Norway accelerating
The number of electric vehicles registered by Norwegian drivers has increased by more than 40 percent from the previous year, the government said. Statistics Norway, the government’s record-keeping agency, reported Continue Reading
“Made in China” e-buses to be used in world’s 1st all-electric long-distance routes
German intercity bus company FlixBus is investing in e-buses produced by Chinese bus makers and planning to test them on their long-distance routes for the first time in the world. Continue Reading
Too Much Sun Could Wreak Havoc on Driverless Cars
Self-driving cars are still working to master the snow . It turns out that excessive sun can also pose a problem for the coming wave of robot drivers. The threat Continue Reading
IEA report draws lessons from rapid uptake of EVs in Nordic countries
In proportion to its population, the Nordic region—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden—is strikingly ahead of the rest of the world in adopting electric cars. With almost 250,000 electric cars Continue Reading
A Bold, Divisive Plan to Wean Californians From Cars
Taller buildings could be coming to an Oakland neighborhood along the rapid-transit line to San Francisco if the State Legislature approves a bill that would override local zoning restrictions. SAN Continue Reading
US utilities ask congressional leaders to lift cap on electric vehicle tax credit
More than three dozen US utilities this week asked congressional leaders to lift a cap on income tax credits for individuals who purchase electric vehicles, and industry observers differed Friday Continue Reading
GM to build production versions of Cruise AV self-driver at Orion plant; roof modules at Brownstown
General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. Roof modules for GM’s self-driving vehicles will be Continue Reading
Even More Evidence That Electric Cars Could Save the Planet
The latest numbers say that as the American grid shifts toward renewables, the positive impact of electric cars is increasing. Everyone’s saying it: The future of driving is electric. The Continue Reading
Tesla’s Make-Or-Break Moment Is Fast Approaching
Elon Musk recently told attendees at the South by Southwest festival that two things are keeping him up at night: an apocalyptic future created by artificial intelligence, and production delays Continue Reading
New report released by UK House of Commons calls for advancing date for end of sale of conventional cars to before 2040
The UK House of Commons has released a new report on air pollution that calls for urgent action by national leadership to bring about a step change in how the Continue Reading
Audi Unveils Its Flying Smart-Car
Considerable improvements in battery technologies and technological advances in manned electric flight have spurred established automakers to begin examining the feasibility of flying automobiles, as both Audi and Porsche have Continue Reading
Diesel Trucks Are Here To Stay
While alternative fuel commercial trucks are gaining interest from fleet operators, diesel is still set to dominate medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for several years. That statement came from Kary Schaefer, Continue Reading
Tesla’s electric motor shift to spur demand for rare earth neodymium
Tesla’s shift to a magnetic motor using neodymium in its Model 3 Long Range carEfforts by governments around the world to cut noxious emissions produced by fossil fuel-powered cars is Continue Reading
Musk’s Hyperloop Now Prioritizes Pedestrians Over Cars
In a shift of The Boring Company’s original concept of helping private car owners’ transportation, Elon Musk is now refocusing Hyperloop’s mission to prioritize pedestrians and cyclists over cars, suggesting Continue Reading
Google founder’s flying taxis secretly tested in New Zealand
A flying car start-up backed by Google founder Larry Page has been secretly testing an electric autonomous aircraft for several months in New Zealand, the company revealed on Tuesday. Silicon Continue Reading
Here’s What’s Next For Electric Cars
Tesla’s stock jumped by 5 percent on Monday on news that the assembly lines of the Model 3 were ratcheting up production, despite a several-day outage at the end of Continue Reading
Renault-Nissan aims for next generation battery car in 2025
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance is working to produce an electric car that uses solid-state batteries as early as 2025, in a move that puts it amid the frontrunners in the global Continue Reading
Auto Industry’s Cure for Electric Car Blues: Be More Like Tesla
It took six years for Ford Motor Co. F 1.13% to sell 8,700 electric Focus small cars. It takes just three days to sell as many gasoline-powered F-Series pickup trucks. Continue Reading
Musk Calls On Trump To Up Car Tariffs To Level Playing Field
Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday to complain to U.S. President Donald Trump about the unfair trade rules on U.S. car sales in China, which make Continue Reading
Tesla Semis Go On First Trip
Tesla’s Semi, the electric truck that the company unveiled a few months ago, has been sent on its first cargo trip, transporting battery packs from the gigafactory in Nevada to Continue Reading
GM CEO Pushes for Renewed Tax Breaks on Electric Vehicles
General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra is pressing Washington for an expansion of electric-vehicle tax credits, a plea that would help the company and rivals like Tesla Inc. sell Continue Reading
Diesel collapse gives automakers carbon headache
The accelerating demise of diesel, long used by carmakers to boost fuel-efficiency, is undermining their plans to meet looming European Union CO2 goals, and avoid big annual fines. The I.D. Continue Reading
Toyota phasing out diesel in passenger cars in Europe, keeping diesel for commercial vehicles
Buoyed by strong European customer demand for hybrid versions on its core models, Toyota will phase out diesel engines from all its passenger cars in 2018. In 2017, hybrids represented Continue Reading
How Feasible Are Electric Trucks?
There is no denying that EVs are here to stay, or that as the techonlogy improves so does their range of movement. It is indeed this range, or lack thereof Continue Reading
RoboTaxis Won’t Be Taking Over Any Time Soon
The Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a leading automotive research firm, just released a new study that casts doubt over autonomous and electric vehicles taking a huge share of traditional Continue Reading
The Aviation Industry Is Backing Biofuels
The International Air Transport Association has set an ambitious goal for its members: transporting a billion passengers on flights using biofuel by 2025. The goal is a demonstration of IATA’s Continue Reading
Ford Targets Miami to Test Driverless Food Delivery
Ford Motor Co. F -2.57% , which is focusing its entry into the driverless-car business on around-town deliveries, has picked Florida’s Miami-Dade County as its first test-bed. The Miami experiment, Continue Reading
Driverless cars given green light to operate in California
Investors have built a billion-barrel bet on higher oil prices. But they are a different breed of bull than years past. The “net long” position held by fund managers in Continue Reading
California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars
California regulators have given the green light to truly driverless cars. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said Monday that it was eliminating a requirement for autonomous vehicles to have Continue Reading
What if every car sold in the world was an electric vehicle?
Big Oil is finally contemplating the unthinkable, and until recently what was also unimaginable for them. What if every car solar across the globe was an electric vehicle? What would Continue Reading
Driverless cars given green light to operate in California
California has approved broad new rules allowing driverless cars that do not require a human operator to sit behind the wheel, in a long awaited win for Silicon Valley lobbyists. Continue Reading
Does China Control The EV Revolution?
After the non-starter EV revolution of the late nineties was crushed by its own architects , hybrids came along to give us a halfway house toward the end of vehicular Continue Reading
Why Charging Your Electric Car at Night Could Save the World
Electric cars won’t tax grid if they charge at off-peak times Adding EVs to peak power demand reduces environmental benefits It’ll take more than just driving an electric vehicle to Continue Reading
Corporate America’s new dilemma: raising prices to cover higher transport costs
The drive for cost cuts and higher margins at U.S. trucking and railroad operators is pinching their biggest customers, forcing the likes of General Mills Inc and Hormel Foods Corp Continue Reading
Just one autonomous car will use 4,000 GB of data/day
Intel Two real-life, practical, semi-autonomous vehicle launches next year are an indication that the self-driving car is really happening. Audi is expected to make its up-to-35-mph hands-free driving system available Continue Reading