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Uber Technologies Inc. fired self-driving car executive Anthony Levandowski, yielding to mounting pressure in its court fight with rival Waymo to part ways with the engineer after a judge concluded he took thousands of confidential files from the Alphabet Inc. unit.

Banking on the shared mobility space after launch of India's maiden electric vehicle project in Nagpur, automobile giant Mahindra & Mahindra is eyeing a capacity of 5,000 e-vehicles a month by 2019 which will be expanded further.

The BMW Motorrad Concept Link, in addition to meeting the requirements of modern urban mobility, also offers fast acceleration and easy handling.

Mahindras XUV Aero Coupe Concept could find electric applications in the future. The company is currently working on a long-range electric motor and is exploring the possibility of an electric powered XUV500 Aero Coupe.

Digital navigation solutions provider MapmyIndia has announced its partnership with Ford, on their AppLink platform. The Map app from MakymyIndia gets an enhanced version on the Ford SYNC platform and will provide the user search Points of Interest via category listing and specific brand names.

The entire automotive world is slowly but surely moving to smaller and efficient engines. And that's how it should be as well. Joining on to this bandwagon is Mercedes-Benz, who is looking to work on down-sized petrol engines. Sources say that the German auto-giant will be looking to bring new 1.2-litre and 1.4-litre engines which will have four cylinders and will be transversely laid out.

Petrol and diesel powered cars will end as soon as by 2030, says a study done by Stanford economist, Tony Seba. The study says that fossil-fueled cars will vanish within eight years and the people who want to buy cars will have no choice but to invest in electric vehicles or vehicles working on similar technologies.

The DEVC system can charge an electric vehicle dynamically with a charge of up to 20 kilowatts at speeds up to, and in excess of, 100 kmph.