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Cars

  • 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

    All new cars must have the devices from 7 July, adding fuel economy as well as safety. Will mpg become the new mph?
  • 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

  • Volvo V60 in a rural setting

    Volvo does a sharp U-turn as the boxy estates and saloons return to Britain

  • Commercial white van speeding

    Carbon emissions from vans still rising as UK drivers cling to diesel

  • BYD electric cars at the 2023 Munich Auto Show

    BYD: China’s electric vehicle powerhouse charges into Europe

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News

  • 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

  • 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

  • Volta electric truck parked in central London

    UK haulage industry calls for investment in electric truck infrastructure

  • huge fields of solar panels next to a field of green crops

    It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

    Jeffrey Frankel
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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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