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Airspeeder makes historic first flights
20 June 2021
ADELAIDE: The world’s first electric flying racing car has made its historic first flights. The successful execution of these Airspeeder flights means that uncrewed electric fly...
Siemens introduces Sicharge D — a smart EV charger that scal...
20 June 2021
SINGAPORE: Siemens has launched Sicharge D, a new public fast charging and high-powered compact electric vehicle charger, in the Asia Pacific region. The Sicharge D boasts one o...
Official Toyota Tundra photo released following leak
20 June 2021
  UPDATE: Second official photo from Toyota showing the Tundra dashboard was released on June 22.   DALLAS: Toyota USA rushed out the first official picture of t...
Ferrari announces June 24 launch of 'revolutionary' car. All...
19 June 2021
MARANELLO: Ferrari has released a short video teasing the June 24 launch of what it calls a "revolutionary Prancing Horse". The wordings suggest the new Ferrari model to be a pl...
Volunteer GoVax Heroes needed to shuttle the elderly for vac...
19 June 2021
PETALING JAYA: The GoVax Heroes programme is calling for volunteer drivers to assist in providing senior citizens aged 60 years and above and persons with disabilities with free ri...
Radio presenter volunteers to ferry the elderly for Covid-19...
19 June 2021
Haniff and Madam Koo, whom he helped ferry to and fro for her vaccine appointment at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre vaccine dispensing centre (PPV) on Monday. PETALING JAYA:...
Snapchat's 'speed filter' gets the axe
19 June 2021
LOS ANGELES: Snapchat said it is putting the brakes on a controversial feature that let users of the social network share how fast they were moving. The feature referred to as a...
Hopium unveils hydrogen-powered sedan prototype, pre-orders ...
18 June 2021
PARIS: French fuel cell electric vehicle maker Hopium has unveiled its first rolling prototype during the Viva Technology week here. Announced in October 2020, this vehicle call...
Hyundai Mobis developed new 'lighting and moving grille'
18 June 2021
SEOUL: Hyundai Mobis says it has developed "lighting grille" technology, which implements an LED lighting function in the front grille of the car. This helps determines the firs...
New Ford Puma ST Gold Edition created via crowd-sourced desi...
18 June 2021
COLOGNE: The results are in. Following an innovative experiment in human centred design, Ford today revealed the winning specification of the new Puma ST Gold Edition that will be ...
In California, Porsche drops manual transmission for top-of-...
18 June 2021
UPDATE: Porsche and Californian authorities have reached a last-minute deal to allow the manual transmission GT3 to be sold in the state.   LOS ANGELES: On June 16, Pors...
China new energy vehicle sales to grow over 40%/yr in next 5...
18 June 2021
SHANGHAI: China's new energy vehicle (NEV) sales are expected to grow more than 40% each year in the next five years, a senior official at the China Association of Automobile Manuf...
Renault agrees deal with unions on remote working
18 June 2021
PARIS: Renault has signed an agreement with French trades unions that will allow thousands of its staff to work from home for up to three days a week, the company said today. Th...
Ferrari and Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data
18 June 2021
MILAN: Ferrari and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have entered an agreement to make Amazon's cloud computing unit the luxury carmaker's cloud storage, machine learning, and artificial i...
Joyson finds falsified seatbelt test data at ex-Takata plant...
18 June 2021
TOKYO: US automotive component maker Joyson Safety Systems' (JSS) Japan unit said today that it has found 1,000 cases of data falsification in seatbelt tests at two plants it acqui...
German minister in talks with Tesla over sharing supercharge...
18 June 2021
FRANKFURT: Germany's transport minister is trying to convince Tesla to open its network of superchargers to other carmakers to make it easier for drivers of electric vehicles to ch...
London’s Oxford Circus is kicking out cars
18 June 2021
A rendering showing how Oxford Circus might appear after adaptation. The actual design will be selected later this year. — Rendering courtesy of Westminster Council LONDON: One of...
China must develop unified, open-source smart car OS, says e...
18 June 2021
SHANGHAI: China, the world's biggest auto market, should develop its own unified, open-source operating system (OS) for smart vehicles, as well as auto chips, to maintain its advan...
Rear view cameras — giving your car eyes in the back of its ...
18 June 2021
BONN: Parking in a tight space can get really stressful. As you manoeuvre and strain your neck to see through the rear window, impatient drivers back up behind you and honk their h...
VW plans to use new 3D printing process in vehicle productio...
18 June 2021
WOLFSBURG: Volkswagen is pressing ahead with the use of innovative 3D printers in car production. For the first time, the newest process – known as binder jetting – is being use...