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The test comes as trucking companies are scrambling to find drivers, and experimenting with automated driving technology as a way to eventually reduce the need for human operators.

Italy aims to spur total investments of more than one billion euros ($1.22 billion) to build an electric car battery factory with car maker Stellantis expected to play a leading role.

Home-grown automaker Tata Motors has announced rolling out the 2,00,000th Nexon subcompact SUV from its Ranjangaon facility, near Pune, Maharashtra. The company claims that it was able to achieve this production milestone while adhering to Covid 19 safety protocols and hygiene norms.

The Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) has released the monthly new vehicle registration data for May 2021. Last month the industry collectively saw 5,35,855 registrations, a month-on-month (MoM) drop of 55 per cent compared to 11,85,374 vehicles registered in April 2021.

When asked about the launch timeline for the EQS, Santosh Iyer, VP - Sales & Marketing, Mercedes-Benz India told carandbike that the company has no plans to launch the EQS or any other EV at least for next one year.

Tata Motors has discontinued XE, XZ, XMA and XZA+ (S) variants of the Nexon Diesel.

Ferrari was also said to be courting former Apple executive Sir Jonathan Ive and its current CFO Luca Maestri

Volkswagen is considering offering autonomous driving on a pay-per-use basis, one of the brand's board members said in a newspaper interview.