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Daimler Trucks is further expanding its field tests for medium and heavy-duty e-trucks in North America.

Beep, a Florida-based autonomous mobility solutions company, has announced a partnership with Bestmile, to use its Fleet Orchestration Platform to plan, manage and orchestrate its autonomous shuttle fleets.

Opinion 25 Aug, 2019

After recent National Grid power cuts, Mike Rutherford thinks the UK is a long way away from being able to cope with the EV revolution

News 22 Aug, 2019

Met Police reports £1.1m of fuel thefts in London in 2018, while rest of UK sees £638,217 of fuel stolen in the same year

Volkswagen Group's Audi brand could be set to join an existing alliance between BMW and Daimler created to develop advanced driverless technologies according to a German newspaper report.

News 22 Aug, 2019

Opel Motorsport will launch the £46,000 Corsa-e Rally at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show

Ford has announced that  Steven Armstrong, current chief of Ford Europe, is to move to the  Changan Ford joint venture as president.

Alfonso Sancha has been appointed new SEAT purchasing EVP and will take up his position on 1 September.

Porsche has acquired a minority stake in Israeli start-up, TriEye.

Chevrolet remains the strong number three make in the USA, some 64,000 units behind Toyota in the first half of 2019 (GM has stopped reporting monthly sales). China, the brand's other major market, is a different story, with Chevy ending H1 in eighteenth place. Which explains why GM's number one global division is adding so many SUVs in North America and China, while also making plans to fight back against FCA's Ram 1500, which has taken second place from the Silverado pick-up in the US market.

News 22 Aug, 2019

The Citroen C3 supermini range has been revised in response to increased customer demand for upmarket models

Alabama Governor, Kay Ivey says Japanese automotive supplier, Vuteq plans to invest more than US$60m to open a manufacturing facility serving the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA  (MTMUS) assembly plant in Huntsville.

News 22 Aug, 2019

UK cannot become a carbon-neutral country until personal vehicle ownership is ended, Science and Technology Committee says

GM Korea workers carried out two days of partial strikes at the company's domestic plants earlier this week after they failed to reach an agreement over the last month with management over wage increases.

Australia's National Roads and Motorists' Association (NRMA) has reached a milestone in Bega with the launch of its 20th Electric Vehicle Fast Charging station, marking the halfway point in its A$10m (US$7m) commitment to build one of the country's largest fast charging networks.

Cummins says its president and COO, Rich Freeland is to retire after forty years of service.

Desjardins and Hydro-Québec say Quebec's first urban superstation for charging electric vehicles has opened at the Complexe Desjardins.

FAW-Volkswagen, one of Volkswagen's main Chinese joint ventures, has opened a new US$240m proving ground in Changchun, in the country's northeastern province of Jilin.

News 22 Aug, 2019

New Hyundai 45 concept will be a retro-inspired showcase of how the brand could design future electric vehicles