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The plan would involve the Innocenti and Autobianchi brands, both shut down in the 1990s, an Italian newspaper said. …

Italy and Spain are backing European Union tariffs on imports of China-built electric vehicles, government sources said ahead of a Monday midnight (15 July 2024) deadline for all 27 EU members to take their stand on the matter. …

Officials are concerned subsidized Chinese firms are going after the bloc’s champions. …

German automakers fear a trade war with a key trading partner. The first vote, set for 15 July 2024, is not binding. …

Closing an EV factory in the EU's home city would be a grave symbol of the bloc's struggle to reach only zero-emission car sales by 2035. …

How do we ensure success? With the Decade of Sustainable Transport kicking off in 2026, IRU stressed two critical components to the UN in New York: the Green Compact and the UN’s own proven conventions. …

The ESPO secretariat received nine submissions for the 16th edition of the ESPO Award. …

Tesla was due to receive a 20.8% additional tariff but is said to have appealed the figure. …

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) and five top automotive groups push for the patent pool operator to uphold transparency in a joint letter. …

Shipping associations are putting pressure on IMO to drastically amend its Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) instrument at the September 2024 MEPC, saying that currently it has “unintended consequences”, contradictory to its aims …

The partnership with Stellantis will “allow us to take the lead and go faster than some other Chinese automakers,” CEO Zhu Jiangming said. …

The Audi Q8 E-tron is the sole model built at the plant, which built about 50,000 vehicles a year and employs about 3,000 people. …

First-half deliveries of full-electric cars were up 22% at BMW, but fell 25% at Mercedes and were flat at Audi. …

The Port Authority of Valencia is committed to hydrogen research through the signing of an agreement with CNH2 (C.N.E. …

The European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF), the European social partners for maritime transport, join forces to launch today the ‘Seafarers Go Digital’ initiative. …

BCA has announced a further significant expansion at its Thurleigh, Bedfordshire facility, already one of the largest combined Remarketing, Logistics, Defleet and Refurbishment centres in Europe. …

Mercedes-Benz's forecast that 50% of sales would be either full-electric or plug-in hybrid by 2025 is looking increasingly unlikely. …

The prospect of European tariffs cut 20-30 percentage points off China's growth in exports of electric and plug-in hybrid cars in recent months, an official at a leading Chinese auto industry body said on Monday, 8 July 2024. …

Italy has officially ratified e-CMR, the digital protocol to the United Nations CMR convention for international road goods transport. …

BYD is set to add Turkey to the growing number of countries where it is opening plants including Hungary, Thailand and Brazil. …