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Six European Union leaders including Italy’s Giorgia Meloni asked the European Commission to propose softening the bloc’s vehicle emission rules to halt a de-facto ban on combustion engines planned by the middle of the next decade. …

Volkswagen Group plans to invest €160 billion ($186 billion) through 2030, CEO Oliver Blume said, reflecting belt-tightening as the automaker faces a major crisis in its two key markets, China and the U.S. …

The European Commission has published a report highlighting the persistent shortage of suitable parking areas for professional drivers across the EU. …

IRU welcomes the Council’s balanced general approach on the roadworthiness package. …

Shares of European carmakers jumped between 2.5% and 5% in early Thursday trading after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed slashing fuel economy standards finalised by his predecessor Joe Biden. …

The European Commission has announced the opening of three new funding opportunities under the Innovation Fund with a total budget of €5.2 billion in EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) revenues. …

President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed slashing fuel economy standards that former President Joe Biden had finalized last year, in a push to make it easier for automakers to sell gasoline-powered cars. …

Today, transport ministers adopted a Council position that amends the directive laying down maximum authorised dimensions and weights for certain road vehicles. …

France is asking the European Union to adopt rules that require automakers to build electric vehicles in the region, as nations continue to put forward different proposals in the bloc’s review on CO2 fleet emissions. …

The European Parliament has ultimately decided that younger candidates for truck-driving roles will have to wait. …

German carmaker BMW aims to cut its CO2 equivalent emissions by at least 60 million metric tons by 2035 from 2019 levels, it said on Tuesday, setting new mid-term goals within the longer-term target of achieving net zero by 2050. …

Production at Stellantis’ French factories is set to drop over the next three years, the Financial Times reported. …

Chinese carmakers lost ground in Europe in October, slipping back from the record market share they captured a month earlier across the region. …

The Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating and improving international shipping, has elected Member States to serve on three categories of the IMO …

China's tightening export controls are pushing European firms to explore new supply chain capacity outside of the world's second-largest economy, a European lobbying group said on Monday, seeking cover from the U.S.-China trade war. …

On 28 November in Shanghai, the christening and delivery ceremony of the Grande Istanbul was held. …

Low confidence, infrastructure delays and limited financial support are putting the UK’s decarbonisation targets for vans and heavy goods vehicles at risk, according to a new report published by Logistics UK. …

The European Commission should resist automakers' calls to allow cars to run on biofuels beyond 2035 because they are in short supply and not truly carbon-neutral, campaign group T&E said on Thursday. …

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wrote to Brussels on Friday to urge the European Commission to ease a planned ban on new combustion-engine cars from 2035, arguing that automakers need more flexibility in the shift to electric vehicles. …

IRU has formally conveyed to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen the united and peaceful protest of 5,302 transport operators and s …