Transport represents 26 per cent of America's total greenhouse gas emissions.

I knew Tesla had a problem when everyone started telling me to "be safe."

An crash in China has raises fresh questions about new car autopilots.

Tesla is expanding retail operations as it targets production of 500,000 vehicles by 2018.

Jaguar has rocketed to the front of an increasingly listless crowd of vehicles in America.

Electric luxury carmaker Tesla Motors missed revenue and earnings projections in its second quarter report.

BIG READ: Self-driving cars are the future, not fantasy, says an expert on the technology - and it isn't far away.

The Tesla car at the centre of the first 'auto-pilot' fatality was travelling at nearly 120kph when it crashed into a truck.

Tesla may well stumble because it is trying to do too much too fast, but Musk's vision is sound.

Turners Group will buy Auckland car dealer network Buy Right Cars for $15.3 million in cash and shares.

COMMENT: The thought of letting my car drive itself seemed frightening. Then I let go of the steering wheel.

The US is to spend billions to help develop driverless technology for long-haul trucks - but not on trains.

Is this stuff safe? What can't it do? All your questions, answered.

An old stereotype is at the centre of a potential billion-dollar class action case against an alleged 70,000 dodgy cars.

Money paid to owners of Volkswagen cars that fooled emissions tests is not a victory for clean air.

It is the largest consumer-auto payout and environmental-auto payout in US history.

Hisashi Taniguchi tries to sync millennia-old teachings with efforts to make AI part of everyday life.

Electric vehicles will drive a huge transformation of the grid - for better or worse.

Plans to test dummies in back seats in new models as part of its 5-Star Safety Ratings Program will begin in 2019.

COMMENT: Automakers are getting the sense that the business of automotive transportation might be about to change radically.

The Chinese owner of the London Taxi Co has raised $400 million for a project to electrify its iconic black cabs.

Apple's decision to invest $1 billion in Chinese company Didi is a sign of its growing interest in transportation.

Norway's $850 billion state pension fund, will join a class action lawsuit brought against the company by private investors in Germany.

COMMENT: John Key should be looking to Canada for inspiration, where Justin Trudeau has made a commitment for his Government's limos to go electric, writes Barry Soper.

Electric cars will soon be allowed to drive in bus lanes, the Government has revealed. The rule change is part of a long-awaited plan to increase the uptake of electric vehicles in New Zealand.

COMMENT: Electric cars? Who wants those? Well, in the United States at least, lots of people.

Analysts say there are a myriad of misconceptions about how the on-demand revolution will affect automakers.

It will take more than Tesla alone to green the global transportation sector.

Excited New Zealanders now face a long wait to receive Tesla's affordable electric car.

Is this the start of the electric car revolution?