Motorists will pay $65 less for car registration fees as part of a raft of changes which come into effect tomorrow.

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.

The Australian billionaire building the ultimate mega-millionaire boy's toy in NZ is on schedule to have a prototype racing car finished in months.

Autonomous vehicles that protect pedestrians first win a moral vote - but would you ride in one?

Oscar Pistorius has given his first television interview since killing Reeva Steenkamp saying he does doesn’t want to go to jail. Britons have been voting in a referendum on whether or not to stay in the European Union A New Zealander's mural of Prince has been unveiled in the musician's hometown of Chanhassen, Minnesota

Transport Minister Simon Bridges says road tolling could be done by GPS satellite, as opposed to toll gantries or cameras.

Japan's crackdown is driven by data-faking.

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.

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.

A rental car company says it will pay out after a Masterton man posted his frustrations on Facebook over an insurance battle after a tourist hit his family car.

Ford Motor paid $199,950 - $55,000 more than the sticker price - to buy one of the first SUVs made by Tesla so it could test and examine the electric vehicle.

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Selling a six-figure supercar is a lot like parallel parking a six-figure supercar: Both require a deft touch and a little bit of luck.

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

Registrations increased 3 percent to 12,110 in March from a year earlier, marking the strongest March level since 1984.

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

Volkswagen's namesake brand said its March US sales fell 10 percent, declining for a fifth straight month.

Is this the start of the electric car revolution?

Is this the start of the electric car revolution?

The Model 3 could become Tesla's make-or-break moment.

Wall Street analysts agree: Elon Musk's electric-vehicle company is getting ready for something big.

Vehicles moving autonomously is a question of ''when,'' not "if,'' BMW says.

Google's analysis of its first crash deserves a little more explanation.

Who needs a car that reaches 335 kph when we're all stuck in traffic?

Mercedes-Benzoffers the S-Class sedan with a growing array of options such as carbon-fiber trim, heated and cooled cupholders and four types of caps for the tire valves, and the carmaker's robots can't keep up.