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German car giant Volkswagen said Wednesday it would sell its operations in China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing has been accused of widespread human rights abuses including forced labor.This post was originally published on this site

President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Energy will make a $6.6 billion loan to Rivian Automotive to build a factory in Georgia that had stalled as the startup electric vehicle […]

Car mechanic Adebola Omotosho has to drive eight kilometers across Nigeria’s bustling commercial hub Lagos to fill his tank with compressed natural gas.This post was originally published on this site

Monash University engineers have developed an ultra-fast charging lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery, capable of powering long-haul EVs and commercial drones.This post was originally published on this site

Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms can reduce road accidents through their ability to detect sleepy drivers and quickly and timely warn them of the dangers their drowsiness may cause, a study has […]

California will revive its own subsidy programs for electric vehicles if Donald Trump guts US federal tax breaks for such cars, the state’s governor said Monday.This post was originally published on this site

Distractions slow the reaction time of automated vehicle remote drivers by over five seconds, new research has shown.This post was originally published on this site

Electric vehicles will now be able to go from zero battery power to an 80% charge thanks to researchers at the University of Waterloo who made a breakthrough in lithium-ion battery design to enable this […]

US auto giants signaled Wednesday they could further slow the ramp-up of electric vehicle production as Detroit awaits the arrival of a Trump administration eager to reverse key Biden climate initiatives.This post was originally published […]

Devising countermeasures for improving pedestrian safety, especially targeted measures for severe and non-severe crashes, is crucial for road authorities. However, such efforts predominantly rely on police-reported crash data, facing obvious and ethical issues and hindering […]