Credit: Tesla China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has recently jointly released the Safety Technical Requirements for Automobile Door Handles. The regulation mandates that all vehicles sold in China, except for tailgates, must be equipped with mechanical exterior door handles and interior door handles. Even if the vehicle is locked due to an accident or power failure, the doors must still be able to be opened manually. This requirement bans the use of hidden door han...

Credit: Geely Ford and China’s Geely are in talks over a potential partnership, as the two global automakers look to share the rising costs of increasingly complex technologies and manufacturing, people familiar with the matter said. The discussions include the possibility of Geely using Ford’s factories in Europe to produce vehicles for the European market, according to the sources. The two sides have also explored a potential framework for sharing automotive technologies, including autonom...

Mahindra & Mahindra has landed its largest-ever export order, clinching a deal to supply 35,000 units of its Scorpio Pik Up to Indonesia in 2026 — a single contract that outstrips the company’s entire export volumes in fiscal 2025. The light commercial vehicles will be delivered to Agrinas Pangan Nusantara, an Indonesian state-owned enterprise, as part of the government’s ambitious Koperasi Desa/Kelurahan Merah Putih (KDKMP) programme aimed at strengthening rural cooperatives and tran...

Cars used to be really simple. They would have an engine up-front, perfectly visible and surrounded by heaps of open space under the hood, a few seats in the middle, and a trunk at the back. As the years have progressed, though, the car has gotten immensely complicated, and while that brings many benefits, it also brings a smattering of negatives. Bigger engines, more ancillaries, larger crumple zones, and heaps of plastic panels covering anything mechanical has meant that engine bays have becom...

At least 15 people have died as the bus they were travelling in overturned in northeastern Brazil, local officials have said. The vehicle had been carrying about 60 people who were returning from a pilgrimage when it crashed on a curved stretch of a highway in the rural interior of Alagoas state on Tuesday morning. Three children were among those who died, a statement said, while some surviving passengers were airlifted to hospital for treatment. Footage on social media shows a bus turned on its...

City Beats Power solutions giant, Mikano International Limited yesterday donated 10 patrol vehicles to the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF) to boost public safety.  The vehicles were handed over by the company’s chairman, Mofid Karameh, to the Executive Secretary LSSTF, Dr. Ayodele Ogunsan, at a brief ceremony in Victoria Island.  According to Mikano, the donation was in line with the private sector’s commitment to public safety, adding that it was fully aligned with the state’s s...