Shell to vastly expand EV charging network in Britain
01 September 2021
LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell announced today plans to vastly expand its network of electric vehicle charging points in Britain, aiming to install 50,000 on-street posts by 2025 as par...
K-pop idol helps police nab drunk driver
01 September 2021
SEOUL: Korean singer-actor Lee Jun-young proves that he’s a responsible citizen when he helped the police to catch a drunk driver recently.
A Korean news portal reported that th...
Sept 2-8: Fuel prices unchanged
01 September 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: The retail prices of RON95 and RON97 petrol as well as diesel will remain unchanged at RM2.05, RM2.54 and RM2.15 per litre respectively from Sept 2 to 8.
The Finan...
China's Xiaomi completes business registration of electric v...
01 September 2021
A Xiaomi store in Shanghai. The giant phone maker wants to be an electric car maker next and has formed a new unit called Xiaomi EV Inc. — Bloomberg
SHANGHAI: Chinese smartphone...
Leaded petrol runs out of gas, a century after first warning...
01 September 2021
NAIROBI: Nearly a century after doctors first issued warnings about the toxic effects of leaded petrol, Algeria - the last country to use the fuel - exhausted its supplies last mon...
Survey: US owners frustrated when linking phones to vehicles
01 September 2021
DETROIT: Automobile quality rose last year, but glitches in pairing smartphones with infotainment systems frustrated owners more than anything, according to a large US survey of au...
Mercedes-Benz teams up with SSAB to explore fossil fuel-free...
01 September 2021
STOCKHOLM: Swedish steelmaker SSAB said today it had partnered with Daimler's Mercedes-Benz to introduce fossil fuel-free steel into vehicle production, with prototype parts for bo...
Road tax can be renewed at Puspakom outlets starting tomorro...
31 August 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: The renewal of road tax for private vehicles can now be done at a Computerized Vehicle Inspection Centre or Puspakom beginning tomorrow.
The Road Transport Departm...
E-fuels could prop up gas guzzlers in an electric world
31 August 2021
TOKYO: Imagine there’s a virtually carbon-neutral version of gasoline. You could keep running your old gas guzzler for years more, top it up at a regular filling station and still ...
Road in Gaza named 'Malaysia Street'
31 August 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: The Gaza municipality has named a road in the western district of Gaza City as "Malaysia Street" in commemoration of Malaysia's National Day today.
Sharing the ann...
Speed limit on most Parisian streets lowered to 30kph
30 August 2021
PARIS: Car traffic on most Parisian streets will become a little slower from today as the speed limit is lowered to 30kph, in line with the results of a survey by city officials.
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Couple crashes car into Sabah police station
30 August 2021
KOTA KINABALU: A couple was arrested after they crashed their vehicle into the Ranau district police station here on Sunday.
Ranau OCPD Deputy Supt Simiun Lomudin said in the 9....
70% discount on JPJ summonses will run until Malaysia Day
30 August 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: The ongoing 70% discount on summonses will continue to mark the country's 64th National Day, says the Road Transport Department (JPJ).
Kuala Lumpur JPJ director Mo...
Drop the chalk: US motorist wins appeal over tickets
28 August 2021
DETROIT: Parking scofflaws unite!
A woman with 14 tickets has won a major decision in a dispute over whether a Michigan city violated the US Constitution by chalking her car tyr...
Geneva motor show organisers to help Qatar set up own show f...
27 August 2021
DOHA/GENEVA: There's a new international motor show coming up and it's set to open in Doha in 2023.
It's getting a big helping hand from the organisers of the Geneva Motor Show....
Xiaomi revs up to enter EV space
27 August 2021
Lei Jun (centre) and his management team.
BEIJING: Xiaomi Corp will buy autonomous driving technology startup Deepmotion for about US$77.4mil (RM324.34mil), sealing a deal to help...
Alphabet's Waymo to stop selling lidar self-driving car sens...
27 August 2021
SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc's self-driving unit Waymo said on Thursday that it has ended a two-year effort to sell light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors to other companies.
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Lordstown Motors new CEO focused on electric truck launch
27 August 2021
DETROIT: Lordstown Motors Corp's new chief executive said on Thursday his focus will be on making sure the electric vehicle maker successfully rolls out its pickup truck in the fac...
VW and Daimler going electric overwhelms German auto supplie...
26 August 2021
BERLIN: Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler are pushing hard to electrify their offerings, but Germany's US$94 billion car-parts industry is struggling with the once-in-a-generation shift....
This may just be the most affordable electric 'car' in the w...
26 August 2021
HANGZHOU: A relatively basic electric car is on sale in China on Alibaba.
Produced by electricKar, the K5 is presented as an electric quadricycle that can accommodate two people...
Finding out remaining useful life of an EV battery
Porsche Taycan prototype sets lap record
Mercedes EQE 500 4Matic SUV Launch in Kuala Lumpur
