Daimler to focus Smart brand on electric cars in U.S., Canada
Daimler will stop selling combustion engine Smart cars in the United States and Canada and focus the brand on electric vehicles in the two markets, the company said late on Monday.
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Trump signs law rolling back disclosure rule for energy and mining companies
President Trump signed a measure Tuesday that could presage the most aggressive assault on government regulations since President Reagan.
An MIT startup made a simple device that turns filthy car exhaust into beautiful ink
One person’s disgusting vehicle exhaust is a clever entrepreneur’s treasure.
Toyota recalls all hydrogen-powered Mirai vehicles
Toyota’s goal to phase out traditional gas-powered vehicles from its product line may have hit a bit of a snag: The carmaker has recalled all of its hydrogen-powered Mirai vehicles. To be fair there are only a few thousand of them.
EPA: U.S. greenhouse gas emissions declined in 2015
Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States declined by 2.2 percent between 2014 and 2015, federal officials reported on Tuesday.
Heroic driver sacrifices his Tesla to save unconscious man in runaway Volkswagen
Near Munich, Germany, a man in a Tesla Model S saw a Volkswagen Passat swerving erratically on the Autobahn, slamming against a guardrail multiple time
Another kind of ‘America first’ energy program
America first doesn’t necessarily mean — or always mean — a focus on American oil. That’s a point we keep hearing from everyone from solar developers to ethanol producers. Here’s one more perspective.
Time is ‘running out’ to protect London children: major air pollution warning from top doctors
The medics, including more than 100 from London, wrote to Theresa May urging her to start phasing out diesel vehicles as soon as possible to cut harmful fumes on the streets of the capital and other cities and towns.
The environmentally ‘meanest’ cars for 2017
Every story has two sides, a beginning and an end, a yin and a yang
India’s air pollution rivals China’s as world’s deadliest
India’s rapidly worsening air pollution is causing about 1.1 million people to die prematurely each year and is now surpassing China’s as the deadliest in the world, a new study of global air pollution shows.
