Uber has been labelled as a transport business that requires a licence to operate by senior members of European Union’s top court. If enforced, it could mean Uber has to operate under the same conditions and safety rules as established taxi firms. Uber has always maintained it only provides technology to help drivers find passengers [...]

Nissan has seen annual profits jump 27%, boosted by better sales in China, the US and Europe. Japan’s second biggest carmaker had net profits of £4.5bn in the year to the end of March. But Nissan forecasts profits would drop by about 20% this financial year, partly due to currency fluctuations. Earlier this week rival [...]

Inmarsat has deployed its LoRaWAN (a form of Low Power Wide Area Network) infrastructure around the city of Kigali to support the Rwandan capital’s flagship smart city project. The network, which will be active for an initial period of a year, will act as the connectivity platform for a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) [...]

Spies Hecker has revealed the lengths it went to in designing the liveries for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport Silver Arrows. The 2017 F1 W08 EQ Power+ car is striking. EQ stands for ‘Electric Intelligence’ and is derived from the Mercedes-Benz brand values of ‘Emotion and Intelligence’. The design process for the 2017 car began while [...]

Global engineering and infrastructure advisory company, Aurecon believes Elon Musk’s futuristic road tunnel system could transform the face of transport as we currently know it. Musk’s futuristic vision of transportation involving underground roadway systems beneath bustling cities where individual cars are transported at high speeds on metal trolley-like platforms between destinations. ‘As with most radical [...]