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Cars

  • A yellow electric Renault 5

    Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution

    Electric vehicles are ‘batteries on wheels’ that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power
  • A 1967 Fiat 124 with William Batchelor House, in Coventry, a 1969 Peugeot 504 with Preston Bus Station and a 1977 Rover SD1 at the Sports and Recreation Centre, Coventry.

    Cars paired with buildings of the same vintage – in pictures

  • Dart charge 'do not ignore' penalty notice.

    Dartford Crossing charge firm told me not to pay, but still fined me £2,230

  • A car speeding past a '40' mph highway code sign painted on the tarmac

    ‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI

  • Ineos CEO Jim Ratcliffe during an unveiling of the Ineos Fusilier electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), outside the Grenadier pub in London in February.

    Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos pulls launch of Fusilier electric SUV

  • FILE PHOTO: Tesla hands over first cars produced at new plant in Gruenheide<br>FILE PHOTO: Model Y cars are pictured during the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

    Tesla sales fall for second straight quarter despite price cuts

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News

  • A Tesla Model Y charges at a EV charge station in Lane Cove on January 19, 2021 in Sydney, Australia.

    One in four cars sold in May in Australia was an EV or hybrid vehicle, data shows

  • a silver-blue Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, a large SUV, is seen side-on parked on a tiled driveway in front of a house with a mock-Tudor black and white frontage, white front door and windowframes, and white picket fence. A yellow cable is seen emerging from the charging port which is behind a flap in the car's rear wing, and this trails behind the car to the power source.

    Plug-in hybrid cars ‘costing £500 a year more to refuel than lab tests suggest’

  • Elon Musk speaks during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024

    Tesla boss Elon Musk criticises US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

  • An electric car at a charging point on a street in London

    Electric cars more likely to hit pedestrians than petrol vehicles, study finds

Electric, hybrid & low-emission vehicles

  • Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, marshals a plane during a visit to Stansted airport in May.

    Buses, trains and bicycle paths: Labour’s mission to decarbonise UK transport

  • A Peugeot electric car plugged into a EV charging point

    UK has almost 1m EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes

  • A Volkswagen employee works on an assembly line to produce the Volkswagen ID.3 electric car

    EU brushes aside risk of China trade war over electric vehicle tariffs

  • Aerial view of about seven cars on a forecourt, including one red and one yellow

    First-half sales of new cars in UK pass 1m for first time since before Covid

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Self-driving cars

  • Gulu Town<br>Since 2006 Northern Uganda is quite peaceful. Former war-torn area around Gulu develops well and people stay out after dark and enjoy nightlife. Gulu is becoming the second largest town of Uganda.

    Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour

  • White car with orange lettering spelling cruise in showroom.

    General Motors names new CEO of troubled self-driving subsidiary Cruise

  • Wayve’s Ford Mustang MachE

    UK AI startup Wayve wins $1bn funding for self-driving car software

  • Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, left, dressed in dark suit and white shirt and tie, sits at a table with besuited Chinese Premier Li Qiang (right) in Beijing

    ‘Watershed moment’ for Tesla as Elon Musk’s visit to China reaps quick reward

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