Category Archives: Motoring News

CNG trucks to transport bacon-flavored B99 biodiesel

CNG trucks to transport bacon-flavored B99 biodiesel

When High Plains Bioenergy delivers biodiesel made from pork fat at its biodiesel plant, it will be using compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered Kenworth trucks to get the fat out.

U.S. will join EU case against Russia’s car recycling fee

U.S. will join EU case against Russia's car recycling fee

The United States plans to join the European Union in a World Trade Organization case that challenges a Russian auto recycling fee program as an illegal trade barrier against imported cars.

European car sales fall 6% to 17-year low in June

European car sales fall 6% to 17-year low in June

European passenger car registrations fell by 6.3 percent in June to a two- decade monthly low as the region’s weak economy hurt demand at automakers including Volkswagen, Opel, Fiat and PSA/Peugeot-Citroen.

Ford plans to improve hybrids’ mpg with software changes

Ford plans to improve hybrids' mpg with software changes

Ford Motor Co. says it will make software tweaks to improve the real-world fuel economy of its 2013-model hybrids.

EU Commission backs France in Daimler refrigerant dispute

Daimler says France is blocking Mercedes registrations over new refrigerant

The European Commission has given provisional backing to France’s decision to block the sale of most of new Mercedes-Benz cars because they contain a banned refrigerant.