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More than a dozen car manufacturers, including Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen have officially asked U.S. President Donald Trump not to relax emission limits, to avoid a fragmentation of the car market, U.S. media reported.

AtScale, the world leader in large data management, opened an office in Sofia. This is the first destination in which the California company moves internationally. The company aims to "bring order in the chaotic ocean of data" that businesses are working on. Customers on its platform for business intelligence are giants such as JPMorgan Chase, Toyota, Wells Fargo, GlaxoSmithKline.

Where is the trend for hybrid vehicles the strongest and how alive is it in Central and South Eastern Europe, especially Slovenia?

Japanese car maker Toyota will start mass production of its new Corolla hybrid in Turkey in January, a top Turkish official has announced.

Japanese car giant Toyota said on Oct. 5 it is recalling more than 2.4 million hybrid cars over a fault that could cause crashes, just a month after another recall affecting hybrids.

Toyota is going all-in on autonomous vehicles, announcing on May 3 plans to open a center this year to test driving scenarios too dangerous to perform on public roads.

Japanese car giant Toyota announced on March 5 that it will stop selling diesel cars in Europe, beginning the phase-out this year.

 Volkswagen's  core autos division increased vehicle sales to a record 6.23 million cars last year, as rising demand for VW brand models in the Americas and the key Chinese market offset a decline in western Europe.

Japanese car giant Toyota said Dec. 13 it wanted half of its global sales to come from electric-powered vehicles by 2030, as the industry strives to meet toughening environmental regulations.

General Motors aims to launch a public ride-sharing service across several cities that uses fully self-driving cars by 2019, potentially becoming the first traditional carmaker to deploy autonomous technology at scale in the real world.