The US Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has announced that the US government will invest nearly $4bn to support development of automated vehicles technology. US government will include the outlay in its budget ...
Tags: Autonomous Vehicle, pilot programs
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has announced its plans to launch more than 10 vehicles with autonomous drive technology by 2020. The company said that the technology will hit mainstream, mass-markets in the US, Europe, Japan and China at ...
China's apparent oil demand in 2015 grew 5.8% year on year to 11.11 million b/d, the fastest pace since 2011, despite the country's economy growing at the slowest rate since 1990, Platts calculations based on recently released official data ...
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Bosch has introduced a new gas pedal that can help in increasing fuel efficiency by up to 7%. This product reduces the dependency of drivers on eco-driving lessons and rule of thumb to drive gently to improve fuel consumption. The gas ...
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The fuel consumption standard of light commercial vehicles will be lowered from 2018 to improve energy efficiency of new vehicles, authorities announced on Wednesday. The revised standard specifies 64 fuel consumption limits for light ...
Tags: New Energy Vehicles, EV
The consumer drone market continues to exhibit dramatic growth as users look to use them to enrich their pastimes and activities. According to ABI Research, more than 90 million consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will ship during ...
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Two days after unveiling the first new vehicle from Detroit's Big 3 imported from China, General Motors Co said it also will import the plug-in hybrid version of the Cadillac CT6 luxury sedan to the US from the Chinese mainland. The ...
Chinese home appliance makers are giving dimensions of reality to the "Internet Plus" strategy championed by Premier Li Keqiang. Slowly but surely, they are pressing ahead with the task of integrating Internet technologies with their ...
Eco-friendly cars and self-driving technology became the hot topics for the international automobile industry in 2015. In January at Detroit's North American International Auto Show, over 40 new vehicles were unveiled. They included a ...
Tags: Eco-friendly Cars, Self-driving
A Russian space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, bringing home a three-person crew from the International Space Station, including a record-breaking Russian cosmonaut. Russia's Gennady Padalka, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space ...
Tags: World Record, Total Days in Space
n years past, a smog-shrouded Beijing was accepted as a fact of life in the big city. But increasingly, people are taking notice. Companies now are focusing on using the internet, smart devices and big data to help the Chinese make ...
Tags: Smart Device, Air
More details have been revealed about a price fixing case which involves eight international ocean freight shipping companies operating in China. The companies include Japan's NYK Line and "K" Line, and Chile's CSAV. The eight companies ...
Tags: Shipping Companies, Price Fixing
The first Briton on board the International Space Station, Tim Peake, has been giving his initial impressions of space during a news conference. He arrived on the space station just three days ago with two other astronauts, one from Russia ...
US based auto parts maker LKQ has entered into an agreement to acquire Rhiag-Inter Auto Parts for €1.04bn to expand its presence in European market. Rhiag-Inter Auto Parts is pan-European business-to-business distributor of ...
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Ford Motor has issued three safety recalls and one safety compliance recall for about 317,000 vehicles. The biggest recall is on the Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis sedan models, manufactured between 2003 and 2005, over ...
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