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BMW recalls 312,000 vehicles in the UK
The DVSA (Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency) in the UK has criticised the German car giant's failure to provide timely information on faulty vehicles. This is the second BMW recall of thousands of vehicles from UK roads in just over a year due to problems with the cars' power supply. The recall includes the BMW 1 Series, 3 Series, the...
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Germany's Electric Cars Are Coming for Elon Musk and Tesla
Germany Electric Cars to Challenge Tesla The big German car manufacturers are rapidly catching up on Tesla Motors. Starting with Jaguar’s I-Pace crossover and later this year Audi’s e-tron, virtually every major carmaker is rolling out stylish, sporty electric vehicles in the mold of the Tesla Models S, X and 3. Unlike Tesla, though, these giant car manufacturers have roughly...
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World's first electrified road opens in Sweden
The world’s first electrified road, known as eRoadArlanda, has opened for the first time in Sweden. The eRoad recharges the batteries of cars and trucks driving on it. The Swedish government has already drafted a national map for future expansion of eRoads, but for the moment they have laid bout 2km of electric rail embedded in a public road near...
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Higher taxes on diesel ‘could reduce pollution and raise €500m’
An Oireachtas committee has assessed the impact of various taxes on the environment and have concluded that a higher excise on diesel would reduce pollution and raise €500m in tax revenue for the government. Ireland currently adds 48 cents of excise duty to each litre of diesel purchased compared with 59 cents for petrol. If the excise duty was...
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Volvo to Give Google Assistant a Central Role in Its Next-Generation Cars
Google Assistant for Volvo's Next-Generation Cars Volvo has announced that it will embed voice-controlled Google Assistant, Google Play Store, Google Maps, and other Google services into its next-generation Sensus infotainment system. That means that Google Assistant will be the central voice interface to operate all the functions of their vehicle’s infotainment system from navigation commands, playing music, sending messages to...
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UAE motorists are opting for rental cars
UAE motorists are ditching cars in favour of rentals as options increase The thirty-somethings and tech-savvy millennials are opting for other options instead of owner and financing their own cars. They are used to using sharing economy apps and experts say that this particular demographic no longer own their own vehicles, thanks to the ever-increasing rise in car sharing services....
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Volkswagen and Audi Cars may be Vulnerable to Remote Hacking
Remote Hacking A cyber-security firm in the Netherlands has discovered that the in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems deployed with some car models from the Volkswagen Group are vulnerable to remote hacking. Researchers in security with Computest said they successfully tested their findings and exploit chains on Volkswagen Golf GTE and Audi A3 Sportback e-tron models (Audi is a brand part of...
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What should you do when you put the wrong fuel in your tank?
What happens if you accidentally put the wrong fuel in your tank? If you have been driving for a while you have probably heard of the situation where someone fills their tank with the wrong fuel. You may have even so yourself. One only needs to do it once to learn the lesson, never to make that same mistake again....
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Could self-driving cars shrink car parks?
New research suggests that the adoption of self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles (AVs) as they are otherwise known, could significantly reduce the amount of valuable space given over to parking in urban areas. The senior author of a new study in Transportation Research Part B, Professor Matthew Roorda said: "In a parking lot full of AVs, you don't need to...
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Can buying a new car can save you money?
One report suggests that buying a new car can save you money? Research from the UK has claimed that motorists could save as a much as a quarter on all running costs if they were to choose a brand new car over a used one. Moneysupermarket, the UK’s largest price comparison website, conducted research a while ago and analysed the...