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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. …

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. …

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. …

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). …

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. …

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. …

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

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. …

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

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". …

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

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 …

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. …

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. …

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