Category Archives: Motoring News

Ford reboots touch-screen system with new Sync 3

A Ford logo is seen during preparations for the 2014 LA Auto Show in Los Angeles

By Bernie Woodall and Ben Klayman
Reuters

Ford hopes to get a fresh start and erase bad memories for some owners when it launches the new version of its in-car, interactive touch-screen system next fall.

Renault’s EVs are about to go a little further

The Renault Zoe will be getting a new engine in spring 2015.

At a special event in Paris on Thursday, the French carmaker gave the motoring press a glimpse of its road map for a low fuel consumption, low emissions future as well as showcasing one or two innovations that will be coming to its road cars as soon as next year.

EIA says California home to almost half of US plug-in electric vehicles

Electric vehicles per 1,000 vehicles

Total US sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)—battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric—have increased in recent years, but still represent only about 0.7% of new vehicle sales in 2014 so far, up from 0.6% in 2013 and 0.4% in 2012.

Taiwan’s NCKU unveils hydrogen hybrid scooter

“Pegasus

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan recently unveiled its first hydrogen-fueled electric hybrid scooter.

Toyota recalls cars in Japan, China for air bags

Toyota recalls cars in Japan, China for air bags(AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
By YURI KAGEYAMA
Associated Press

Toyota is recalling 185,000 vehicles in Japan and 5,000 in China for a possibly defective air bag supplied by Takata, the Japanese manufacturer at the center of an unfolding safety scandal.