UK taxi, private hire vehicle drivers to undergo criminal re...
21 July 2020
LONDON: Taxi and private hire vehicle drivers in the United Kingdom will have to undergo criminal record checks every six months and cabs could be fitted with CCTV under fresh regu...
75 smuggled e-bikes seized
20 July 2020
PETALING JAYA: The Customs Department has seized 75 e-bikes smuggled into the country via a shipping container.
Customs Department deputy director general (enforcement/complianc...
Shell says UK can bring forward petrol car sale ban to 2030
19 July 2020
LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell Plc expects the UK can end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles in just a decade, as the nation attempts to eliminate emissions by the middle of the c...
Saleen reveals plans for off-road desert racer
19 July 2020
LOS ANGELES: Saleen Automotive of California has revealed the Saleen Bronco. As the creator of the Saleen S7 – one of the most successful racing cars ever built – Saleen is mainly ...
IGP: 20-year jail and fine enough for drunk drivers
18 July 2020
KUALA LUMPUR: The Inspector-General of Police has described the government’s proposal to increase the prison sentence to 20 years and fines of up to RM150,000 for driving under the...
July 18-24: Fuel prices unchanged
17 July 2020
PETALING JAYA: Fuel prices will remain unchanged for the July 18-24 week.
The Finance Ministry said in a statement today that the price of RON97 would stay at RM2.02 per litre.
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New York to invest US$750mil to expand EV infrastructure
17 July 2020
EV chargers from Electrify America.
NEW YORK: New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced an investment programme that would allocate US$750 million to build charging sta...
GM venture and Burger King criticised on China consumer righ...
17 July 2020
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: A car made by a General Motors (GM) joint venture and US fast food chain Burger King and were picked out for criticism on Thursday by China’s state television sta...
Covid-19, electric vehicles to reshape Thailand’s auto indus...
17 July 2020
BANGKOK: The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating the remaking of Thailand’s automotive industry, the backbone of Southeast Asia’s auto sector, as factory shutdowns compound a shift t...
Call to build highway that bypasses Brunei gains new impetus
16 July 2020
Vehicles lining up at the Miri border checkpoint to cross from Sarawak to Sabah via Brunei.
MIRI: The Federal Government and Sarawak government have been urged to start building a...
Indonesia produces maiden batch of biodiesel made of 100% pa...
16 July 2020
JAKARTA: Indonesia's state oil company PT Pertamina produced its first successful batch of biodiesel made up of 100% palm oil (D100) in its Dumai refinery last week and is set to p...
Auto sales boost expected in Q3
16 July 2020
PETALING JAYA: Automotive companies could see a boost in sales in the third quarter of this year, spurred by the government’s tax exemption and introduction of new models.
MIDF ...
US fast food chain Chipotle to expand drive-thrus
16 July 2020
LOS ANGELES: US fast food chain Chipotle on Wednesday announced it planned to expand its drive-thru lanes and hire as many as 10,000 new employees.
Chipotle, known for its tacos...
Work-from-home culture will cut billions of miles of driving...
16 July 2020
DETROIT: Working from home and online shopping have become the new normal and that will reduce driving in the United States by up to 270 billion miles a year, according to new stud...
Navistar to develop self-driving trucks with TuSimple
16 July 2020
CHICAGO: Truck maker Navistar International Corp has bought a minority stake in TuSimple and aims to co-develop self-driving trucks by 2024 with the technology company as it rolls ...
'Urban canyons' causing signal black-out for driverless vehi...
15 July 2020
LONDON: Autonomous vehicles could face signal black-out caused by "urban canyons" in cities across the world due to the continued growth of skyscrapers and urban infrastructure, ac...
Road traffic microplastics flooding world's oceans, says stu...
15 July 2020
PARIS: Airborne microplastics from traffic pollution may be entering the world's oceans at a similar rate to that from rivers, according to new research Tuesday warning that the pa...
Longer jail time, higher fines for drink driving if proposed...
15 July 2020
KUALA LUMPUR: Drunk drivers will be looking at longer mandatory jail time and higher fines if proposed amendments to the law is given the nod when tabled in Dewan Rakyat soon.
A...
15 US states to jointly work to advance electric heavy-duty ...
15 July 2020
WASHINGTON: A group of 15 US states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday unveiled a joint memorandum of understanding aimed at boosting the market for electric medium- and heavy...
Driving schools now allowed to conduct courses, training
14 July 2020
PETALING JAYA: Driving schools are allowed to conduct courses and training sessions starting today, says Senior Minister (Defence) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
He said the ce...
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