A bicycle graveyard in Wuhan in 2018. Photo: Wu Guoyong Three years after China’s blooming bike-sharing economy wilted, local authorities are about to send the last of 25 million abandoned bicycles to recycling plants, pruning the remaining blight on cityscapes left behind by dozens of companies that have gone bust. […]
WASAGA BEACH, Ont. — Provincial police remained on the scene Sunday in an Ontario beach town where hundreds of motorists allegedly gathered this weekend. © Provided by The Canadian Press OPP Sgt. Jason Folz said the “car takeover” of Wasaga Beach, Ont., began Friday and continued early Sunday. Load Error He […]
Rolls-Royce plans to bring an electric vehicle to market within the decade, Automotive News Europe reports. There isn’t much demand for an EV from the company’s customers, but the brand is developing one because many cities plan to ban gas-powered cars in the not-too-distant future. Bentley, one of Rolls-Royce’s competitors, […]
CAMBRIDGE, England & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bicycle Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: BCYC), a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, today announced that it has completed its at-the-market (ATM) offering program initiated during the third quarter, generating gross proceeds of $50.0 million. […]
(Bloomberg) — France will gradually cut hybrid and electric-car subsidies in the coming years, posing risk to a segment that’s growing but remains a relatively small portion of one of Europe’s top auto markets. © Bloomberg Renault SA Car Showroom as Zoe Sales Beat Electric Rivals The government plans to […]
Mayor John Cooper’s office has released a new and expanded draft of his $1.6 billion transportation plan, offering more details on proposed changes to public transit, sidewalks and more. The new version of the plan includes further information on the $180 million “Better Bus” plan, which would expand the city’s […]
Photo credit: Audi From Autoweek If there is one piece of car technology we remember being promised about a decade and a half ago that is slowly coming true without hype, vaporware or unrealistic promises of transforming the automotive industry overnight, it’s cellular vehicle-to-everything technology, known in tech circles as […]
© DICK KELLEY From the C/D Archives: Our original test of the Nissan 240SX. From the February 1989 issue of Car and Driver. There’s a sequence in Out of Africa in which Robert Redford buzzes a clearing in a biplane, thumps down, and taxis up to his startled paramour, Meryl […]
BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio © John Benson/cleveland.com/cleveland.com/TNS Broadview Heights Police Car Drunken driving, Windsor Way: On Sept. 6, police were dispatched to a one-car crash on Windsor Way. An arriving officer located a red Chevy Trax, which struck a tree. The driver, who was still in the Trax, smelled like […]
NEWTON – Bicycles have been part of Everett Bradley’s life for as long as he could remember. One of the first things he saved up to buy for himself was a bicycle — he spent about $15. “My first bike, I bought at 10 years old after mowing lawns,” Bradley […]
One-time World Rally champion Petter Solberg believes his chance to compete on the powerstage of next month’s Rally Italy is the perfect litmus test for Pirelli’s new gravel tyres. © LAT Images Solberg to contest WRC Italy powerstage with Pirelli The Norwegian, who beat Sebastien Loeb to the 2003 WRC […]
The recreation-vehicle maker reported a backlog valued at $5.74 billion, compared with roughly $2 billion a year earlier. Photo: joshua lott/Reuters Updated Sept. 28, 2020 4:20 pm ET Thor Industries Inc., a large recreational-vehicle maker, finished its latest fiscal year in July with a record-high backlog of orders as the […]
© Hyundai The automaker says the RM20e prototype shows the next-Generation N performance Hyundai dropped its RM20e Racing Midship Sports Car at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition 2020. RM refers to the N prototype’s “Racing Midship” rear-drive, midship powertrain configuration the company says is designed to yield ideal handling, balance […]
SPENCER, N.C. — The N.C. Transportation Museum released a statement on social media Friday, saying the Polar Express Train Ride has been canceled for 2020. The full statement is provided below: “The N.C. Transportation Museum and the N.C. Transportation Museum Foundation, in accordance with our event partners and the N.C. […]
Whether you’ve flown somewhere — before various coronavirus measures decimated travel — had your car in the shop or just needed to take a trip out of the city, chances are you’ve had to rent a car at some point. If you have, you know that the rental car company […]
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Margaret Quamme | The Columbus Dispatch Top-selling Christian rockers Casting Crowns normally play arenas; this year, the band is doing drive-ins. And on Thursday, it will bring its show to the South Drive-in Theatre in Columbus. “If you’ve ever wanted to get up close and personal with Casting Crowns from […]
Luxury automakers in the last decade have started to switch out heavy insulation in vehicles for active noise control, or ANC. Much like noise-canceling headphones, ANC utilizes a system of microphones and a digital signal processor to cancel out unwanted noises — like the whirr of tires and the acceleration […]
Enel X, the Enel Group’s advanced energy services business line, has been awarded two grants by the Accelerating Clean Transportation Now (ACTNow) program through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). The grants will support the development of public transportation electrification in Massachusetts and coincide with the company’s entrance into public […]
Worried about manual transmissions going away? Get ready for an extinction event properly worth grieving over, because Gavin Newsom has just announced plans to abolish the internal combustion engine by 2035. In an executive order announced Wednesday, Newsom said sales of internal-combustion passenger vehicles and light trucks would be banned by […]
NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) Drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists in Beaufort, Greenville, New Bern Pine, Knoll Shores, and Washington will be seeing increased safety information as N.C. Department of Transportation kicks off its 2020 Watch for Me NC awareness campaign. Drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists will see and hear safety messages that […]
Cars get dirty (and smelly). You can baby your car as much as possible, but dust, dirt and all kinds of other crud will find its way onto the paintwork. The easiest way to keep a car looking clean is a nice and simple hand wash. But before you reach […]
[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A soon-to-expire federal law that governs the country’s highway policies appears to be headed toward a yearlong extension. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), the top transportation policy authorizers on Capitol Hill, have indicated support for […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – Zhejiang Geely Holding Group launched its first electric vehicle-focused platform on Wednesday, aimed at rolling out a variety of models more efficiently for both the Chinese automaker and its partners. As the global auto industry ramps up investment in electric and high-tech vehicles, manufacturers from Volkswagen AG […]
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Canyon’s concept car is lightweight, low and narrow four-wheeler. Canyon Nineteenth-century German bicycle company Opel morphed into a motor car maker. On September 1, Canyon of Koblenz revealed it was potentially on the same trajectory as it added a concept electric car to its roster of high-end bicycles. The vehicle […]