A fleet of self-driving vans has gone into service in Texas, USA, in the world’s first full-scale fleet trial of fully autonomous technology. The vans, based on the Nissan e-NV200 electric vehicle, are operated by technology company Drive.ai and include information boards on the vehicles that explain to other road users what they are doing [...]

Some new Mercedes-Benz Vito, Porsche Macan and Cayenne vehicles have been stopped by Swiss authorities which had diesel engines that disguised emission levels, according to Reuters. The Astra road agency said in a statement that the halt will affect vehicles imported from 17 August of this year. The vehicles already registered in Switzerland must be [...]

Ordnance Survey (OS) is one of 11 partners in OmniCAV, a £3.9m project to develop a world-first artificial intelligence-based simulation model for testing autonomous car safety. The simulation environment will feature a 32km circuit of Oxfordshire roads, covering rural, urban, main roads and intersections. The simulation will be used to create and run different scenarios [...]

According to Envirotech magazine, a new type of energy storage system could transform energy storage and decrease the charging time of EVs from hours to seconds. A new paper published in journal Nature Chemistry, by chemists from the University of Glasgow, tells of their development of the new flow battery system using a nano-molecule. This [...]