Search Results for: cars

The technology is known as ‘dynamic inductive charging’ and has been trialled in a range of scenarios across different continents. And one system, in South Korea, is now in operation on a live transport route, on roads in the towns of Gumi, in the country’s southeast, and Sejong, in central South Korea.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) executive, the European Commission, has issued guidance for the bloc’s 28 member states on how to enforce controls on so-called ‘defeat devices’ that have been abused, notably by Volkswagen to bypass EU emissions rules.  

This advice also tells EU regulators on how to restrict other emission abatement strategies used during laboratory tests for type approval purposes, as well as when to allow such methods, under a waiver.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) lawmakers are pushing for national regulators to put 20% of new car models released for driving through laboratory tests to check compliance with emissions standards, a demand that has spooked Europe’s automakers.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) backed this 20% rule in a vote yesterday (Feb 9) in its key internal market and consumer protection committee on proposals to overhaul the EU’s type approval system.…

As the drive to encourage electric vehicle (EV) ownership gathers momentum, so does the desire to install automated recharging systems, such as devices built into roads that top up batteries as autos motor on.

The technology is known as ‘dynamic inductive charging’ and has been trialled in a range of scenarios across different continents.…

THE AUTOMOTIVE industries of the European Union (EU) and Canada are both optimistic that they will export more vehicles as a result of the newly approved Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the two jurisdictions. The European Parliament gave CETA its support last Wednesday (February 15), meaning it will come into force provisionally once the Canadian House of Commons does the same (considered a formality).…

A collaboration forged between Australia and New Zealand in January this year could demonstrate how countries can pool resources to develop autonomous vehicles (AV). The antipodean neighbors are to launch an Australian and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ANZDVI), according to Peter Damen, chair of executive steering committee, of an existing partner the Australian Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI).…

South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Yoo Il-ho has confirmed that his government has begun drafting a talent-based immigration system to serve as a key driver of economic competitiveness in the future. According to Yoo, the Office for Government Policy Coordination (OPC) has created a task force to counter the country’s demographic changes and plans to produce mid and long-term immigration policies in the first half of the year.…

THE FEDERAL Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) Program, in the USA, has managed to escape the cull of environmental programmes ordered by the new administration of President Donald Trump.

His executive orders shortly after taking office in January led to more than USD4 billion’s worth of grants and contracts administered by the USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) being scrapped.…

THE GERMAN paint and coatings industry is predicting that its sales will grow steadily in the coming year, as Europe’s largest economy continues its steady economic good fortunes.

The World Bank forecasts that 2017 gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be 1.6% and in 2018 it will be 1.5%.…

Researchers believe designers will expand the use of graphene in textiles for bio-medical, sportswear, fashion, furnishings, military and security equipment.

Isolated by scientists from graphite in 2004, a layer of pure carbon, graphene is the thinnest known compound. It is just one atom thick (a million times thinner than a human hair), the strongest compound ever discovered (between 100-300 times stronger than steel), the lightest material (with one square metre weighing only 0.77 milligrams) and very flexible.…