Carlos Ghosn pledges lengthy fight to clear his name
15 June 2021
Ghosn speaking to a Reuters reporter in Beirut on Monday. With him is his wife, Carole.
BEIRUT: Fugitive former car executive Carlos Ghosn said on Monday he was prepared for a len...
Electric-truck maker Lordstown's CEO, CFO resign
15 June 2021
PITTSBURGH: Lordstown Motors Corp on Monday announced the sudden departure of its chief executive and finance head, just days after the electric truck maker warned that it may not ...
Singapore's Carro is a unicorn with US$360mil led by SoftBan...
15 June 2021
Carro, formally known as Trusty Cars Pte, is seeking to bolster its market position in the region as well as broaden its financial services. — Reuters
SINGAPORE: Carro, one of Sou...
G-7 drops aim to shift new car sales away from oil by 2030
14 June 2021
LONDON: Group of Seven nations backed away from plans to set a target for making sure most new cars sold are greener vehicles, instead pledging only speed up efforts to move away f...
Moscow announces car raffle to boost vaccination drive
14 June 2021
A healthcare worker administering a dose of Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine to a patient, at a vaccination centre in Moscow. — AFP
MOSCOW: Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Su...
Indonesia extends luxury tax break on cars with smaller engi...
13 June 2021
A 2017 photo of a traffic jam in Jakarta. Gaikindo reported that Indonesia’s domestic car sales sank by almost half in 2020 compared with the previous year. — AFP
JAKARTA: Indones...
Digital sales helping auto industry ride through pandemic, s...
13 June 2021
PETALING JAYA: Sales of cars have not been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, says Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
He said this was because industry players had a...
ABB PixelPaint wins award for ability to do two-tone sprayin...
13 June 2021
ZURICH: ABB’s PixelPaint robotic non-overspray technology for the automotive industry has won this year’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation (IERA) Award ...
Jeremy Clarkson bought a farm 11 years ago. Now he has to ru...
13 June 2021
Clarkson as a farmer is like a fish out of water. But he's slowly getting there. — All photos from Amazon Prime Video
LONDON: Under normal circumstances, a 1,000-acre farm in rura...
Govt to provide fuel, cooking oil subsidies of up to RM8bil ...
12 June 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: The government is expected to cover fuel and cooking oil subsidies up to RM8bil, which is RM4.22bil more than the initial RM3.78bil allocated for this year.
The go...
Apple hires ex-BMW executive for its rebooted car project
11 June 2021
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc. has hired Ulrich Kranz, a former senior executive at BMW AG’s electric car division, to help lead its own vehicle efforts, according to people familiar wi...
Hispano Suiza to auction 12 Carmen electric hypercars as NFT...
11 June 2021
BARCELONA: Hispano Suiza says it would create 12 units of the electric hypercar Carmen, which will be auctioned as Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) through the Trillion Collection platfo...
Lockdown expected to be extended as Covid-19 cases still hig...
11 June 2021
UPDATE: The Government has announced that the nationwide lockdown will be extended for another two weeks from June 15-28.
PETALING JAYA: The current two-week lockdown which is...
Electric cars to beer cans risk getting pricier over aluminu...
11 June 2021
TOKYO: To understand why everything from a can of beer to an electric vehicle is likely to get pricier, negotiations over aluminum fees in Japan provide a vivid lesson.
Producer...
Time for Norway to tax luxury electric cars, say IMF economi...
11 June 2021
WASHINGTON: Norway should begin taxing high-end battery-powered cars to lower the overall cost of its generous electric vehicle (EV) incentives, economists at the International Mon...
After phone boxes, charging points may become new icon of Br...
11 June 2021
LONDON: Electric vehicle charge points could join red phone boxes and post boxes as an "iconic" sight on British streets under new design plans.
A contract valued at £200,000 (R...
G-7 eyes ambitious shift to electric cars and away from oil
10 June 2021
LONDON: Group of Seven leaders are discussing ambitious plans to shift the balance of car buying away from gasoline to greener vehicles by the end of the decade, as part of a packa...
G-7 venue Cornwall crowned as Europe’s most pinned road trip...
10 June 2021
LONDON: Cornwall has been revealed as the most "pinned" road trip destination in Europe, according to a new study.
The research conducted by Honda used Pinterest data to loo...
How changing the position of EV batteries could help boost v...
10 June 2021
LONDON: British startup Page-Roberts has unveiled a concept electric vehicle (EV) promising a 30% increase in range, notably by repositioning the battery vertically in the centre o...
Alibaba to develop self-driving trucks with logistics unit C...
10 June 2021
Cheng Li speaking next to a Cainiao autonomous delivery robot in Hangzhou today. — Reuters
HANGZHOU: Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group Holding Ltd plans to develop self-driv...
BYD Atto2's rotating centre display
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