The cost of the intractable semiconductor shortage has ballooned by more than 90%, pushing the total hit to 2021 revenue for the world’s car makers to $210-billion.
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Jubilant SAA staff at the country’s biggest airport broke into song and dance on Thursday as the airline took to the skies for the first time in a year.
Uber Technologies wants to expand its zero-emissions pledge to food delivery and make the business environmentally sustainable.
The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit.
For Sipps Maswanganyi, a safari guide with 20 years of experience in the African bush, it was one memorable sighting that sold him on electric safari vehicles.
The abrupt departure of Apple’s top automotive executive imperils its efforts to develop a self-driving car, a project that’s been seen as one of the tech giant’s biggest bets.
The longer-term future of Mercedes-Benz’s production plant in East London has been secured by investments to ensure its flexibility to produce vehicles with different powertrains.
Toyota said on Tuesday it expects to spend more than US$13.5-billion (R193-billion) by 2030 to develop batteries and its battery supply system — a bid to lead in the key automotive technology over the next decade.
A US regulator has barred Virgin Galactic from flying its SpaceShipTwo until it approves its final mishap investigation report from its July flight or determines the issues do not affect public safety.
Leaded petrol has been eliminated after the world’s last remaining stocks were used up last month. Algeria, the only country still pumping leaded petrol into vehicles, exhausted its final stocks in July.