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Electric Cars Can't Advertise As "Zero Emissions": UK Regulator
Britain's advertising regulator ruled Wednesday that BMW and MG Motors could not claim that their electric vehicles are "zero emissions" because of the environmental impact of their manufacturing and power generation.
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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Volkswagen Appeals Over Emissions Tampering
The justices refused to hear appeals by VW and German auto supplier Robert Bosch LLC of a lower court ruling allowing Florida's Hillsborough County and Utah's Salt Lake County to seek to hold the companies liable under local laws and regulations barring tampering with vehicle emissions controls.
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Ford, Volkswagen Will Stay Neutral On Challenges To Trump Vehicle Emissions Rule: Report
Four major automakers will not take a position on legal challenges to the Trump administration's decision to dramatically weaken Obama-era fuel economy standards but want to weigh in on any court fix, according to a document seen by Reuters. The Trump administration in March finalized rollback of U.S. vehicle emissions standards to require 1.5% ann...
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Volkswagen Loses Landmark German Emission Case As Car Owners Stand To Receive Damages
A German federal court judge ruled that Volkswagen has to pay compensation to motorists who purchased vehicles with manipulated diesel engines, a major blow for the carmaker in its home market as it continues to reel from the emissions scandal.
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Volkswagen Loses 'Damning' Dieselgate Class Lawsuit In The UK
German car giant Volkswagen faces the threat of a hefty "dieselgate" payout in Britain after a court Monday ruled in favour of more than 90,000 VW drivers whose vehicles cheated emissions tests. Following adverse rulings and compensation payouts elsewhere, the High Court in London ruled that the German auto giant was liable also in Britain.
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Fiat Chrysler & Foxconn Plan Push Into Chinese Electric Car Market
Fiat Chrysler (FCA) - which is set to launch its first full-electric model, the 500 small car, this year - last month reached a binding agreement for a $50 billion tie-up with France's PSA to create the world's No. 4 carmaker. The merger with PSA would help the Italian-American automaker to strengthen resources to meet tough new emissions rules and...
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PSA Trade Unions Give The Nod To Merger With Fiat
The merger would help the firms pool resources to meet tough new emissions rules and investments in electric and self-driving vehicles, as well as counter a broader downturn in car markets.
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BMW's Higher Margin SUV Sales Help Drive 33% Profit Rise In Germany
BMW's third-quarter operating profit rose 33 per cent on stronger sales of sports utility vehicles as well as the absence of one-off factors which had depressed earnings a year earlier, the German luxury carmaker said on Wednesday. The Munich-based company said its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) rose to 2.29 billion euros ($2.54 billion)...
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Trump Fight On California Auto Emissions Could Outlast Presidency
The Trump administration plans to announce in the coming months a weakening of federal vehicle emissions standards, one of numerous steps reversing environmental initiatives pursued by Democratic former President Barack Obama.
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Sales Slumps In China, India Clobber Automakers Banking On Asia For Growth
Hit by a slowing economy, the US-China trade war and the chaotic implementation of new emission rules, vehicle sales logged a 12th straight month of declines in June.
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FCA To Pay Tesla Hundreds Of Millions Of Euros To Pool Fleet
maker Tesla Inc hundreds of millions of euros so that the vehicles of Tesla are counted in its fleet to avoid fines for violating new European Union emission rules, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The step will let the Italian carmaker offset carbon dioxide emissions from its cars against Tesla's, by bringing down its average figure to a pe...
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Exclusive: Volkswagen Responds To Green Court Ruling, Says Compliant With Indian Emissions Standard
The Volkswagen Group in India has officially responded to the NGT Green Court's ruling with regards to the Dieselgate emissions scandal. The German automaker has been asked to deposit an amount of Rs 100 crore with the Central Pollution Control Board or CPCB with regards to the use of cheat devices that allowed vehicles to pass emissions tests. Res...
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Volkswagen Looks At Converting Its Emden Plant To Build Electric Cars
Volkswagen will consider plans to convert its factories in Emden, and Hannover, Germany to build electric cars during a strategy review on November 16, German daily Handelsblatt said. The carmaker is preparing to ramp up sales of electric cars as it struggles to make its combustion-engined vehicles comply with more stringent emissions rules introdu...
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Toyota Pursues Petrol But Sees Electric Potential In New Technology
The Japanese automaker plans to keep refining its petrol engines and the hybrid technology it pioneered two decades ago while also developing battery operated cars as tightening global emissions rules drive a race for longer-range affordable EVs.
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Munich, Home To BMW, Considers Diesel Ban To Tackle Pollution
The scandal over rigged diesel emissions tests at German carmaker Volkswagen has thrown the engine technology into doubt and has highlighted carmakers' struggle to comply with ever stricter rules capping nitrogen oxides emissions.
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Electric Cars Can't Advertise As "Zero Emissions": UK Regulator
Britain's advertising regulator ruled Wednesday that BMW and MG Motors could not claim that their electric vehicles are "zero emissions" because of the environmental impact of their manufacturing and power generation.
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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Volkswagen Appeals Over Emissions Tampering
The justices refused to hear appeals by VW and German auto supplier Robert Bosch LLC of a lower court ruling allowing Florida's Hillsborough County and Utah's Salt Lake County to seek to hold the companies liable under local laws and regulations barring tampering with vehicle emissions controls.
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Ford, Volkswagen Will Stay Neutral On Challenges To Trump Vehicle Emissions Rule: Report
Four major automakers will not take a position on legal challenges to the Trump administration's decision to dramatically weaken Obama-era fuel economy standards but want to weigh in on any court fix, according to a document seen by Reuters. The Trump administration in March finalized rollback of U.S. vehicle emissions standards to require 1.5% ann...
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Volkswagen Loses Landmark German Emission Case As Car Owners Stand To Receive Damages
A German federal court judge ruled that Volkswagen has to pay compensation to motorists who purchased vehicles with manipulated diesel engines, a major blow for the carmaker in its home market as it continues to reel from the emissions scandal.
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Volkswagen Loses 'Damning' Dieselgate Class Lawsuit In The UK
German car giant Volkswagen faces the threat of a hefty "dieselgate" payout in Britain after a court Monday ruled in favour of more than 90,000 VW drivers whose vehicles cheated emissions tests. Following adverse rulings and compensation payouts elsewhere, the High Court in London ruled that the German auto giant was liable also in Britain.
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Fiat Chrysler & Foxconn Plan Push Into Chinese Electric Car Market
Fiat Chrysler (FCA) - which is set to launch its first full-electric model, the 500 small car, this year - last month reached a binding agreement for a $50 billion tie-up with France's PSA to create the world's No. 4 carmaker. The merger with PSA would help the Italian-American automaker to strengthen resources to meet tough new emissions rules and...
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PSA Trade Unions Give The Nod To Merger With Fiat
The merger would help the firms pool resources to meet tough new emissions rules and investments in electric and self-driving vehicles, as well as counter a broader downturn in car markets.
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BMW's Higher Margin SUV Sales Help Drive 33% Profit Rise In Germany
BMW's third-quarter operating profit rose 33 per cent on stronger sales of sports utility vehicles as well as the absence of one-off factors which had depressed earnings a year earlier, the German luxury carmaker said on Wednesday. The Munich-based company said its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) rose to 2.29 billion euros ($2.54 billion)...
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Trump Fight On California Auto Emissions Could Outlast Presidency
The Trump administration plans to announce in the coming months a weakening of federal vehicle emissions standards, one of numerous steps reversing environmental initiatives pursued by Democratic former President Barack Obama.
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Sales Slumps In China, India Clobber Automakers Banking On Asia For Growth
Hit by a slowing economy, the US-China trade war and the chaotic implementation of new emission rules, vehicle sales logged a 12th straight month of declines in June.
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FCA To Pay Tesla Hundreds Of Millions Of Euros To Pool Fleet
maker Tesla Inc hundreds of millions of euros so that the vehicles of Tesla are counted in its fleet to avoid fines for violating new European Union emission rules, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The step will let the Italian carmaker offset carbon dioxide emissions from its cars against Tesla's, by bringing down its average figure to a pe...
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Exclusive: Volkswagen Responds To Green Court Ruling, Says Compliant With Indian Emissions Standard
The Volkswagen Group in India has officially responded to the NGT Green Court's ruling with regards to the Dieselgate emissions scandal. The German automaker has been asked to deposit an amount of Rs 100 crore with the Central Pollution Control Board or CPCB with regards to the use of cheat devices that allowed vehicles to pass emissions tests. Res...
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Volkswagen Looks At Converting Its Emden Plant To Build Electric Cars
Volkswagen will consider plans to convert its factories in Emden, and Hannover, Germany to build electric cars during a strategy review on November 16, German daily Handelsblatt said. The carmaker is preparing to ramp up sales of electric cars as it struggles to make its combustion-engined vehicles comply with more stringent emissions rules introdu...
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Toyota Pursues Petrol But Sees Electric Potential In New Technology
The Japanese automaker plans to keep refining its petrol engines and the hybrid technology it pioneered two decades ago while also developing battery operated cars as tightening global emissions rules drive a race for longer-range affordable EVs.
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Munich, Home To BMW, Considers Diesel Ban To Tackle Pollution
The scandal over rigged diesel emissions tests at German carmaker Volkswagen has thrown the engine technology into doubt and has highlighted carmakers' struggle to comply with ever stricter rules capping nitrogen oxides emissions.
