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 [...]

Electric autonomous vehicle company, the Academy of Robotics, has closed its latest funding round in under six hours. Investment came in so quickly that founder William Sachiti turned down an additional £500,000 that was offered. The Academy of Robotics is currently developing Kar-Go, the autonomous delivery vehicle. Kar-Go hopes to shake-up the delivery market by [...]