By TOM KRISHER
For the owners of 189,000 General Motors SUVs, the days of parking them outside the garage for fear that they could catch fire will soon come to an end.
Category Archives: Motoring News
BMW develops street lights with EV charging sockets
by Edward Taylor
BMW has developed street lights equipped with sockets to charge electric cars, it said on Friday, and will run a pilot project in Munich next year that uses existing local authority lighting networks.
Ford’s New Police Cruisers Track Cops When They Break Traffic Laws
Ford’s newest line of police cruisers are designed to catch bad guys on both sides of the law.
NHTSA orders Honda to deliver Takata air bag papers
By Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert
U.S. safety regulators ordered Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co Ltd on Wednesday to provide documents and answer questions under oath about potentially defective air bags installed in millions of recalled U.S. vehicles.
October German car sales continue gains
Car sales in Germany rose 4 percent in October, extending the increase seen so far this year in Europe’s largest auto market despite a weakening domestic economy.
Registrations increased to 275,320 cars last month, driven up by demand for sport-utility vehicles and premium models, with Chrysler’s Jeep and Porsche among the top-performing brands, Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) said on Tuesday.
