Sales of new cars in Germany fell by nearly 4 percent in April, bucking the trend in the other major western European markets of France, Italy and Spain where sales were up.
German passenger car registrations dipped to 274,097 last month, the Department of Motor Vehicles (KBA) said, the first drop for five months and a sign that a recent recovery in demand remains fragile.
Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne wants the automaker’s Jeep brand to double its global sales to more than 1.5 million vehicles by 2018 with strong growth in South America and China, sources said.
Marchionne sees the iconic U.S. brand as one of the main pillars of growth for Fiat Chrysler and will announce his ambitions for Jeep when he unveils a new five-year product and business plan for the combined Italian-American company on Tuesday, sources said.
Kristin Hopkins wrote pleas for help on a red-and-white umbrella that she managed to push through a broken window of her crashed car and open, hoping to attract the attention of drivers on a scenic highway above.
Activists have sued the city and county of San Francisco over a pilot program giving shuttles run by Google and other private companies access to municipal bus stops, claiming it favors higher-paid technology workers over low-income residents.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a request for information (DE-FOA-0001124) seeking stakeholder input regarding the 8 representative biofuel technology pathways that the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has selected to guide its Research and Development (R&D) strategy in the near-term.DOE is also seeking input on other pre-commercial pathways that it should consider in the near- to long-term.
