There is bad news today if you are one of the many thousands of Malaysians that use a private car to get to work in the city of Kuala Lumpur. The City Authority (Dewan Bangsar Kuala Lumpur or DBKL) has announced that they are to introduce a congestion charge or road pricing come 2017, for all private vehicles entering the Central Business District.
As South East Asia struggle with their very own home-grown (or was that ‘burnt’?) haze problem and we are about to enter the smog season in China, it may leave some people in Asia wondering just what all the furore is about over the marginally higher exhaust fumes coming out of some VW cars.
The Hyundai N 2025 could only be driven through a gaming console…until the South Korean automaker built a real-life model for our sheer pleasure. The Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo gets power from a 872hp engine, which sends it through four in-wheel motors linked to a hydrogen fuel cell system. The futuristic supercar looks like the lovechild of a Le Mans car and an open-wheeler, with a hint of alien spaceship DNA.
“You heard it coming, first came a thunderous boom and then the red earth shook hard, everything shook!” said Sandra Voskuhl, who for the past 76 years has lived in the rural town of Crescent, one of the boom towns of the fracking craze, which until recently has resulted in a rejuvenation of the area. But now the local residents may be about to count the cost.
The relatively unknown non-profit International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) was actually trying to prove that diesel vehicles could be clean, but didn’t realise that it would uncover what is revealing itself to be the next great scandal in the automotive industry.
The silence around Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond has been deafening since they inked the deal with Amazon to make 136 episodes of a new motoring show with Amazon Prime earlier this year. However, a contributor with BuzzFeed has uncovered a trademark application by Clarkson’s lawyers, Olswang, filed two weeks before the terrible trio committed to the £160 million contract with Amazon.