China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as top-selling electric car seller

Build Your Dreams outsells rival in final quarter of 2023 figures for battery-only vehicles

I paid a Ulez charge, but got a £559 penalty and threats from bailiffs

I have bank statements to prove it but I’m still receiving threatening letters

Queensland woman uses electric car to run her son’s dialysis machine during power cut

Kristy Holmes always knew she could use her electric car for ‘good things’, but when storms caused a blackout, it proved life-saving

Gales threaten New Year’s Eve travel chaos in England and Wales

Bad weather in southern England, the West Country and south Wales likely to cause further disruption

‘They’ve knocked down hundreds of trees’: concerns over Cornwall’s new anti-gridlock road

The infamous A30 summer bottleneck will go when dual carriageway opens in March, boosting the local tourism economy. But for some residents the cost is too high

Rise in dashcam submissions leads to more dangerous drivers being caught

More than 33,500 videos sent to police in England and Wales in year to November, up 30% on 2022

Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026, says transport secretary

Mark Harper says vehicles can improve road safety and personal freedom, as autonomous cars face increased scrutiny

Stranded by the motorway as another RAC callout breaks down

We had to be rescued by a highways officer and driven to safety after hours in wind and rain

Daihatsu suspends production in Japan after safety test scandal

Toyota subsidiary has admitted falsifying data on some models for more than 30 years

‘Drama magnet’: Elon Musk’s biggest headlines of 2023

From cage fighting to rebranding Twitter: it was another controversial year for the multibillionaire

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary: ‘There isn’t enough cooking oil in the world to power one day of green aviation’

The explosive airline boss with a big bonus looming sees the need for climate action – but points out ships and cars are big emitters too

UK installed record 16,000 public electric car chargers in 2023

Annual increase of 43% takes total number above 53,000, of which more than 4,600 are ‘ultra-rapid’

Green Motion hire car broke down – then we were charged £2,600

The company blamed us when the clutch went on our vehicle and it would not provide a replacement

Sadiq Khan backs sending 4x4s due for scrappage under Ulez to Ukraine

London mayor had claimed law stopped him allowing vehicles beneath emissions standards to be donated to war effort

Keep UK trains running at Christmas and save engineering works for January, say campaigners

‘It doesn’t have to be this way’: Britain’s transport networks again grind to a halt during festive period