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Electric car interest soars as Britons confront fuel shortag...
28 September 2021
LONDON: Britain’s fuel shortage has intensified interest in electric vehicles, based on the record level of inquiries at one online auto marketplace. Auto Trader Group Plc said ...
Wrong-way drivers caused 807 accidents since January, says W...
28 September 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: Based on Home Ministry data, there were 807 accidents involving vehicles going against the flow of traffic since January this year, Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong told th...
'Crazy': Britain puts army on standby as panic buying leaves...
28 September 2021
Queues of drivers snaking back from those petrol stations that are still serving in major cities. — Reuters LONDON: British drivers expressed frustration today as they hunted fo...
Three-month extension for Ducatis with warranty expiring bet...
28 September 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: Ducati Malaysia says Malaysian Ducati owners, whose warranty periods are ending between August 2021 and September 2021 will get a three-month warranty extension upon ...
Legendary cars reinvented in floating form
28 September 2021
PARIS: The Floating Motors startup presents an ambitious project that involves reinventing some of the car world's automotive icons as floating vehicles. This innovative concept...
Route 77 Harley-Davidson of Kuala Lumpur creates Covid-19 re...
28 September 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: Route 77 Harley-Davidson of Kuala Lumpur, a local authorised Harley-Davidson motorcycles dealer, has started a community initiative to aim victims of the Covid-19 pan...
Busted: Scam syndicate with stash of RM1mil in auto parts
28 September 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: Police here have stopped scammers who had been cheating car parts sellers after the syndicate was crippled through several raids following a report lodged on Sept 21....
Shift to EVs means huge 'reskilling' job for Europe, says re...
28 September 2021
LONDON: The shift to electric vehicles will force huge changes in the auto industry and require EU backing for "reskilling" programmes to help workers prepare for a zero-emission f...
The Rolls-Royce electrification prediction from a century ag...
28 September 2021
LONDON: While Rolls-Royce never made any production electric cars, the brand's founders fascination with electricity and electrified vehicles go way back before the company's estab...
Ferrari Portofino M launched from RM998K
27 September 2021
PETALING JAYA: The Ferrari Portofino M is launched today in Malaysia at a base price of RM998,000 (before duties, options, taxes and insurance). Highlights are the redesigned po...
Ferrari, parent Exor clinch alliance with former Apple desig...
27 September 2021
Ive (left) with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the September 2018 launch of iPhone XR. MILAN: Italian luxury car maker Ferrari and its parent company Exor, the holding vehicle of the Agnel...
Toyota ready to introduce new hybrids to Malaysia
27 September 2021
SHAH ALAM: Nope, no car launch today. Just more build-up from UMW Toyota Motor about the brand's shift to car electrification. Recall our last post on the matter last Monday tha...
Leonardo DiCaprio-backed Polestar valued at US$20b in SPAC d...
27 September 2021
LONDON: Polestar, the electric-vehicle maker backed by Volvo Car Group and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-check company at a roughly US$...
Energy-efficient vehicle manufacturing gets priority in 12MP
27 September 2021
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob says the government will give priority to the development of an energy-efficient vehicle manufacturing industry to suppo...
Electric supercars need to lose weight, power up and cool do...
27 September 2021
OXFORD: Speed has always been paramount for supercar makers, and now they're in the race of their lives to go electric before climate policy cuts their combustion engines. That'...
Interstate travel likely to be allowed by first half of Octo...
27 September 2021
PUTRAJAYA: Interstate travel will likely be allowed during the first half of October, says National Recovery Council chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Muhyiddin said the issue ...
New semiconductor plants will end global auto chip shortage ...
27 September 2021
TURIN: Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk said that thanks to new semiconductor plants that are planned or under construction, the global chip shortage that has pummelled the car industry thi...
Geely to set up 5,000 battery swapping stations by 2025
26 September 2021
BEIJING: China's Geely aims to set up 5,000 battery swapping stations for electric vehicles (EV) globally by 2025, as sales grow in the world's biggest vehicle market, the automake...
Mercedes customers waiting over a year for cars, says Kallen...
26 September 2021
BERLIN: Mercedes-Benz customers are facing waiting times of more than a year for their orders because of interruptions to production caused by chip shortages, Daimler chief executi...
Driving tests backlog will be cleared by end of the year, sa...
26 September 2021
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) is targeting all tests involving 462,124 outstanding candidates at 232 driving institutes nationwide to be completed before th...