While South Korea’s auto market is dominated by local players, particularly Hyundai Motor Group, Germany’s BMW has seen a healthy jump in its share of the imported passenger car market to 26% last year from 18% three years earlier. BMW Group Korea attributes some of that surge to the effect of South Korea’s free-trade agreement [...]

The electric-car company that recently withdrew a proposal to build a factory in central Ohio is announcing that American Electric Power is the first company in the world to buy one of the cars for its corporate fleet. Coda Automotive’s debut sedan will be part of an AEP fleet that now includes 18 plug-in vehicles, [...]

Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Porsche and Volkswagen have all announced at the Electric Vehicle Symposium 26 that they will agree to support a new single-port fast-charging technology that will recharge vehicle EV batteries in just 15 to 20 minutes. This marks the first step towards harmonising the electric vehicle market, by creating [...]