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South Korea's transport ministry said it will ban about 20,000 BMW vehicles from the streets amid mounting public fears about engine fires after 27 cars went up in flames this year. The fires prompted a recall of 106,000 diesel cars.

Solvay, Premium Aerotec and Faurecia Clean Mobility, have launched IRG CosiMo (Industry Research Group: Composites for Sustainable Mobility).

GM has decided to keep its diesel development center in Turin even though selling Opel last year meant leaving diesel's global stronghold of Europe.

General Motors has decided to keep its diesel development center in Turin even though selling Opel last year meant leaving diesel's global stronghold of Europe.

Porsche has its Widowmaker, BMW its Clownshoe and Ferrari its Breadvan. Nissan's GT-R became Godzilla, an homage to the original giant of Japanese pop culture.

The fallout from Volkswagen's diesel-emissions cheating scandal has left the automaker in an awkward spot: It must now fund an ad campaign pushing electric vehicle awareness that highlights competitors' products.

Elon Musk is finally offering more details on his bombshell tweet that he had 'funding secured' to take Tesla Inc. private. It's unlikely to get U.S. regulators off his back.

Heavy rain lashed several parts of the East Coast over the weekend, triggering flash floods in northeast New Jersey that carried vehicles from a nearby Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge dealership downriver Saturday and into a bridge.

The American Center for Mobility said Michigan's transportation head Kirk Steudle will serve as its interim president and CEO, replacing John Maddox, who launched ACM as its top executive in 2016.

Nielsen and J.D. Power are banding together to bring auto marketers a new platform that will allow them to measure and target car buyers more precisely to boost return on investment.

Actor Mark Wahlberg made his first pit stop into his namesake Chevrolet dealership in Columbus, Ohio, Monday, going on a test drive with a customer, autographing another customer's vehicle and posing for lots of selfies with staff.

The fallout from Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal has left the automaker in an awkward spot: It must now fund an ad campaign pushing electric vehicle awareness that highlights competitors' products.

Hyundai Motor is reviewing production of hydrogen fuel cell trucks and hoping to achieve economies of scale in hydrogen powered mobility, according to a senior executive's remarks in an interview with the Korea Herald.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk elaborated on what precipitated his effort to take the company private, portraying the interest that Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has shown in the electric-car maker as key to the gambit.

Elon Musk elaborated on what precipitated his effort to take Tesla private, portraying the interest that Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has shown in the electric-car maker as key to the gambit.

This month in our Hands-On-Tech (HOT®) reporting series, we put the Hyundai KONA's Blue Link system to the test. Taking you through the top-spec connectivity features offered by manufacturers in detail, this HOT report series looks to benchmark the connectivity functionality of each manufacturer based on various test criteria. Hyundai has done a good job to position its technology with what the market is currently expecting. Yet, in this fast changing world, it is a system that will date very quickly.

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Audi's Rupert Stadler will remain in custody after a Munich court rejected an appeal by the executive to be released.

Audi's Rupert Stadler will remain in custody after a Munich court rejected an appeal by the executive to be released.

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund (called the 'Public Investment Fund' - PIF) is reportedly working to be part of any investor pool that emerges to take Tesla private.