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Ensure that technology openness fosters innovations and guides all EU regulatory proposals. …

The co-operation to develop car software agreed upon between Volkswagen and Rivian at the end of June is naturally a topic in Rivian’s Q2 annual report. …

Talks between the Italian government and China's Dongfeng Motor Group about building an auto plant in Italy are at an advanced stage, Italian sources close to the matter said. …

Three years after launching the Aurora Class design, the first Aurora vessel, Höegh Aurora, was delivered at a naming ceremony at China Merchants Heavy Industry’s yard in Jiangsu, China, on 6 August. …

Mercedes-Benz said it has become the first international auto brand permitted to test advanced autonomous driving in Beijing at a time when domestic and global carmakers are racing to perfect the technology. …

Lucid Motors has received $1.5 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). That means the carmaker now has sufficient funds until the fourth quarter of 2025. …

Norway has opened its first public charging site dedicated exclusively to electric trucks. …

Aehra, Italy's first pure electric car brand, has announced the names of its first two vehicles. The SUV will be called Impeto and the saloon Estasi. …

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. …

The summer holidays are officially in full gear but drivers should refrain from pushing the pedal to the metal this week as traffic police across the EU enforce extra speed checks. …

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. …

According to an agency report, Tesla is committed to expanding its factory in Grünheide. However, the timing of the billion-euro investment is still unclear, as Tesla is still waiting for sales to increase. …

The US Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks, according to sources briefed on the matter. …

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. …

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

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. …

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. …