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The highly anticipated CLEVER project, aimed at establishing credible emission factors as input to the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector, officially kicked off on the 1st of June 2024. …

This opinion piece does not necessarily reflect the views of ECG. Tobias Gehrke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). …

Germany's automakers are growing gloomier about their prospects after a disappointing earnings season marked by waning electric vehicle sales and weakness in China for companies including Volkswagen Group and Mercedes-Benz. …

Germany's electric vehicle sales slumped in July, extending a broad pullback since incentives ended late last year and undermining automakers' plans to shift to selling EVs. …

Intel gave a grim growth forecast and laid out plans to slash 15,000 jobs, signaling that the chipmaker is ill-equipped to compete in the artificial intelligence era. …

Jaguar Land Rover's biggest headwind is an upcoming shortage of aluminium after production at a plant owned by key supplier Novelis was hit by flooding, its finance chief, Richard Molyneux, told investors. …

A recent Europe-wide safety operation has revealed concerning figures about the adherence to EU regulations governing work and rest times among truck drivers. …

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) launches new report identifying that he …

The ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is expanding its TransNET to include a multimodal connection to and from Serbia. …

Volkswagen will need to make "significant cost-cutting efforts" in the second half of the year and beyond if it is to revive profit margins, the automaker said on Thursday, after reporting first-half margins it described as "too low". …

China was further ahead of Japan in vehicle exports for the first half of 2024 after overtaking its Asian neighbor as the world’s top vehicle exporter in 2023, according to numbers disclosed by industry groups in the two countries. …

Some of the world's biggest truckmakers, including Volvo and MAN, are reworking combustion engines to run on low-emission hydrogen instead of polluting diesel, a quicker low-cost fix to their energy transition challenge that may give the …

Stellantis is facing delays on a key new EV model for Europe because of software bugs, a dampener to efforts to rejuvenate a stale lineup and reverse a slump in profit. …

The Government of Catalonia has acquired 8 devices thanks to which the regional police, Mossos d’Esquadra, will be able to detect excessive driving times by professional drivers without having to stop the vehicle for control. …

Demand for purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) dropped dramatically in Germany during the first half of 2024 and the country’s automotive sector is bracing for a gloomy full year as high prices and leasing rates hamper business.  …

New EU truck registrations saw a more modest increase of 3%, totalling 183,295 units from January to June. …

Chinese brands captured 11% of the European electric-car market in June, notching record registrations as manufacturers raced to beat stiff European Union tariffs that took effect early this month. …

Leapmotor International, a 51/49 Stellantis-led company between Stellantis and Leapmotor, has shipped the first batch of Leapmotor electric vehicles - C10 SUVs and T03 cars - from Shanghai, China, to European ports this month, marking a …

New car registrations in Europe will hit 13.1 m this year, predicts Dataforce. That’s up 2.2% over 2023 and growth will accelerate in 2025. But there is potential trouble ahead.  …

CEO Koji Sato drove Toyota to across-the-board records in profits, sales and production output in the stellar fiscal year that ended March 31. …