Motor emissions could have fallen 30% more without SUV trend, report says

Global fall averaged 4.2% between 2010 and 2022 but would have been far more if vehicle sizes stayed same

Westconnex: a $20bn money pit or a bold plan for Sydney’s future? Experts remain divided

Drivers can now travel from the Blue Mountains to the Sydney Harbour Bridge without passing a traffic light, but at what cost?

Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla

Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model

Nissan to secure UK’s largest car plant with two new EV models

Japanese carmaker expected to unveil plan to build replacements for its Qashqai and Juke crossover cars with £1bn investment

Jeremy Hunt cuts national insurance but UK tax burden set to hit high amid plummeting living standards – as it happened

Chancellor cuts national insurance but OBR says UK facing biggest fall in living standards since records began

Rishi Sunak’s net zero delay ‘will slash demand for electric cars’

OBR analysis suggests higher energy prices and interest rates could reduce proportion of new cars sold that are electric from 67% to 38%

Britain’s addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards

Saving the industry means saddling consumers with ever more debt. The fumes of 2007 are in the air, says political economist Tom Haines-Doran

When is a car not a car? When it’s a Swedish A-traktor

Vehicles modified to not go above 19mph became a teenage rite of passage, but amid a rise in accidents, there are calls for a ban

Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Advertising Standards Authority says Hilux poster and video condone driving that disregards ‘impact on nature’

The Guardian view on festive marketing: stop spending like there’s no tomorrow

Editorial: Between Black Friday and Christmas we will see adverts encouraging people to desire things that don’t reveal what they could cost the planet

‘Breakthrough battery’ from Sweden may cut dependency on China

Northvolt says new lithium-free sodium-ion battery is cheaper, more sustainable and doesn’t rely on scarce raw materials

‘I cannot stress too much about it’: Monaco yacht buyers shrug off climate concerns

At annual yacht show, only a handful of customers said they were troubled by vessels’ disproportionate carbon footprint

Ad industry grapples with role selling consumption in climate crisis

Does being an effective agency mean helping sell more products or can it mean helping mitigate climate emergency?

The jet set: 200 celebrities’ aircraft have flown for combined total of 11 years since 2022

Jets belonging to entertainers, CEOs, oligarchs and billionaires produce equivalent to emissions of almost 40,000 Britons

Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden’s powerful unions

The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union model, says journalist Martin Gelin