The Volkswagen Group has joined the eRoaming platform Hubject GmbH as a shareholder. Hubject, founded in 2012 by BMW, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, innogy and Siemens, provides EV drivers with easy access to charging stations as well as payment solutions. Almost 40,000 charge points on three continents are already available on this platform. With the strategic [...]

Reports indicate that China is set to penalise an unnamed US vehicle manufacturer for monopolistic behaviour. The report, from the official China Daily newspaper, revealed that investigators have found a US company had instructed distributors to fix prices starting in 2014. The anticipated penalty follows a government crackdown on what China has labelled as ‘monopolistic [...]

Uber has expanded its self-driving pilot to San Francisco, California, using specially converted self-driving Volvo XC90 premium SUVs. The move marks the next phase in a deepening alliance between Volvo and Uber after the two companies signed an agreement in August 2016 to establish a jointly owned project to build base vehicles that can be [...]

Google has set up its self-driving car unit as its own separate entity called Waymo under the Alphabet umbrella. During the launch event, Waymo CEO John Krafcik highlighted how the Waymo team had conducted the first fully driverless ride on public roads in Austin last year, using a car with no steering wheels and no [...]

Norway is setting the pace in the adoption of electric vehicles with more than 100,000 units now on its roads – but it plans to quadruple that number within three years. With a population of 5.2 million and EV sales accounting for 20% of all new car registrations, the county now boasts the world’s highest [...]