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UPDATE: Images added of the Hemera at the Frankfurt Motor Show debut 13.09.2011   Eterniti Motors, the new British boutique luxury car maker, is to make its public debut at Frankfurt on the 13th of September. The Hermera will, it claims, be t...

With super credits, actual CO2 limit is around 97.5g/km of CO2

The European Union has reached a compromise on CO2 emissions for 2020, and now it must be ratified by the member states. The compromise sets an automotive emissions average of 95g/km of CO2 for 2020 but allows automakers to earn more CO2 supercred...

Business consultants AlixPartners have released a forecast of the European Automotive industry called the Global Automotive Outlook that predicts that things will not get better until 2020. The report cites high unemployment and the euro cris...

Sales for the year still down 3.1%

For the first time in 2013, EU auto sales have increased in two consecutive months according to the European Auto Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). October sales increased 4.7% over the previous October with 1,004,935 cars sold. Combined wi...

New rules call for an average reduction of 4.3%

The European Union passed a rule that automakers must have fleet average CO2 emissions of 130g/km of CO2 by 2015, and an average of 95g/km of CO2 by 2020. Cars sold in the EU had average emissions of 136g/km of CO2 in 2011, which was down 3.3% fro...

Critics say it goes too far to weaken emissions rules

The European Commission is considering augmenting CO2 emissions laws to allow automakers to trade CO2 credits to lower their average emissions. The rules currently mandate average CO2 emissions of 130g/km of CO2 by 2015, and it is seeking to manda...

Advocate General in case says that VW has complied

The German state of Lower Saxony will likely not face a fine for failing to comply with EU law for protecting Volkswagen, according to Advocate General Nils Wahl. The case concerns whether Lower Saxony complied with a previous ruling that...

The European Union may extend its deadline on automakers' emissions because of the weakening European economy. Automakers have been complaining that the stronger emissions lead to more expensive cars, which means lower profits per vehicle beca...

The EU Parliament has ruled that all cars sold in the EU must be able to contact emergency services in an accident.  The ruling states that when the sensors indicate that a crash has happened the car will make an eCall to emergency servic...

When the new green car technologies started to show up they were very enthusiastic as they announced that the cars were silent and produced barely any noise. But they simply didn’t remember that that could become dangerous for people that, i...