emissions

Volkswagen and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today that they had reached an agreement on a plan to address hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles sold over six years deliberately designed to violate U.S. emission laws. The agreement, released at 8 am California time this morning...

A proposal by the Dutch Labor Party would end sales of internal-combustion cars in 2025.

Updates to the millions of Volkswagen TDI diesel cars that turned out not to meet European emission regulations were supposed to be well underway by now. German authorities had signed off on the modifications—software updates and for one group of engines, a new plastic insert to alter...

Peabody Energy is the 50th coal company to file for bankruptcy since 2012.

A former Fiat powertrain-research boss says new emissions test may hurt plug-in hybrids.

India's Power Minister wants the country to convert its entire fleet to electric cars by 2030.

Environmental groups want Mexico to pass tougher emissions standards that have been pending for months.

Friday, March 18th, will mark six months since the news that Volkswagen deliberately circumvented U.S. EPA emissions laws on so-called "clean diesel" models sold from 2009 through 2015. That news hit the automotive world like a bombshell, and led to consequences for VW Group that are still...

A businessman and electric-car fan who imported a Tesla Model S into Singapore has had to pay an additional emission tax on the zero-emission luxury car. While the Tesla runs solely on batteries and has no tailpipe from which to emit anything, the island state levied the tax to reflect the annual...

Volkswagen will release the results of its internal diesel-cheating investigation at its annual shareholder meeting April 21.

Five months after it first hit the press, U.S. owners of 580,000 diesel vehicles with Volkswagen TDI engines are no closer to knowing how or when their cars will be modified than they were in mid-September. And if a report last week by the Reuters news service is accurate, they have at least...

Last week, alarm bells were sounding for large portions of the enthusiast, motorsport, and racing community, over new regulatory language that, from the sound of it, could result in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) crackdown for weekend racers. Now the EPA’s effectively saying...

Large numbers of tires end up as fuel in Asian factories, creating more pollution.

Did Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn know about the company’s “defeat device” built into its diesel vehicles, and the impending scandal, as early as May 2014? Based on some information recently leaked to a German newspaper, Bild-Zeitung, it’s become a possibility he might...

Effects of climate change could last considerably longer than originally thought, a new study says.

The U.N.'s aviation agency drafted the first-ever emissions rules for airplanes.

New European emissions-testing rules would allow carmakers to exceed legal limits of nitrogen oxides.

Another week brings more new stories on the diesel-emission cheating scandal that threatens to dig Volkswagen deeper into a ditch of its own making. Following reports in German newspapers late last week suggesting that the "defeat device" software was an "open secret" in VW's engine group, the...

Several companies are collaborating on an all-electric school bus.

Measuring the energy efficiency and environmental friendliness of different vehicles is easy if they're powered by gasoline, less so when the energy comes from grid electricity. This leads to perpetual debates over the assumptions used on the source of electricity and its carbon footprint, among...