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A growing row between Germany and France risks crashing into a crucial EU summit later this week. …

Audi CEO Markus Duesmann flew to China last week to tackle a problem that is indicative of the challenges facing Germany: how to compete with its biggest trading partner on new technology. …

Mercedes-Benz will invest billions of euros to modernize its plants in China, Germany and Hungary over the coming years, Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive News Europe, reported, citing Jörg Bu …

Industry letter on AFIR targets Dear Swedish Presidency of the Council, Dear Ministers, Dear MEP Ismail Ertug, Dear EU Commissioner Adina-Ioana Valean, …

Talks between Germany's Transport Ministry and the European Commission about the planned end of new combustion engines from 2035 are moving forward, the ministry said on Monday, but added it could not say when an agreement would be reach …

Stellantis will spend more than €200m ($213.3m) to manufacture four Fiat models in Algeria, the automaker said on 2023 March 19. …

Skoda would have to close a plant and ax models if the European Union's Euro 7 emissions scheme is implemented in its current form, a Skoda board member said. …

Mercedes will invest billions of dollars to modernise its plants in China, Germany and Hungary over the coming years, magazine Automobilwoche reported, as the carmaker prepares to switch to electric vehicles and cut emissions. …

As self-driving truck developers move forward with pilot deployments and continue laying the groundwork for broader commercialization, they are pursuing several different concepts for how and where this technology could fit into real­-wo …

French Transport Minister Clément Beaune on Friday said that Germany's proposal to save the combustion engine is "risky." …

EU rules setting stricter pollution standards for trucks will pull resources from the production of zero-emission vehicles, slowing the shift to electrification, the vice president of Volvo group has said. …

Given their importance in everyday life, cars must be ‘given more space’, particularly as they have become ‘cleaner, quieter and safer’, Infrastructure and Water Management Minister Mark Harbers said as he presented his governme …

As a new face at German infrastructure manager DB Netze, Thorsten Dieter aims for change. …

Governments must use the upcoming meeting of the Intersessional Working Group on Greenhouse Gases (ISWG-GHG-14) to support stronger science-based climate targets for 2030 and 2040 that are vital for shipping’s energy transition, accordin …

New rail links announced between Wales and England are an encouraging step towards easing congestion on the M4 motorway, which parallels the Great Western Mainline (GML). …

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said France had declared a "showdown" in the dispute over the EU's plans to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035. …

Today, the Commission proposed the Net-Zero Industry Act to scale up manufacturing of clean technologies in the EU and make sure the Union is well-equipped for the clean-energy transition. …

Brussels officials are growing increasingly exasperated with businesses demanding more state cash, and threatening — if they don’t get it — to quit Europe and relocate to America.  …

The German federal transport minister Volker Wissing sends mixed signals to the industry. On the one hand, he appears to have a new railway renovation concept that will be completed by 2030. …

Tesla has submitted the first application for the expansion of its plant in Grünheide in Brandenburg, Germany, to the State Office for the Environment. …