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Japan's Honda Motor will launch a new electric vehicle brand in China next year, it said on Wednesday, and will only launch battery electric, hydrogen fuel-cell or petrol-electric hybrid vehicles there from 2030.

Hyundai Motor's global chief operating officer said on Wednesday the South Korean automaker wants to develop its own chips to reduce reliance on chipmakers.

U.S. commercial electric vehicle maker Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc (ELMS) on Thursday said it has signed a battery supply deal with China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL).

Honda is gunning for zero traffic collision fatalities involving its motorbikes and automobiles by 2050, globally.

The situation for Bolt EV owners became so bad that the US authorities even ordered owners to park the vehicle outside to avoid potential fires.

U.S. auto safety regulators asked Tesla Inc why the electric-car maker has not issued a recall to address software updates made to its Autopilot driver-assistance system to improve the vehicles' ability to detect emergency vehicles.

Tesla claims this is a world first and said the test was a success based on the crash test with dummies.

Smedley points out the data based solely on the Turkish GP will not be the correct barometer for judging who is the fastest starting driver.