‘A guy did a runner in a Jaguar’: the petrol theft scandal – and the garage owner struggling to stop it

Since the start of the Iran war in February, there has been a 23% rise in fuel theft, with more than £1.2m stolen from British forecourts each week. Why aren’t the police doing more to apprehend the culprits?

EU border chaos feared at Dover crossing as busiest summer weekend looms

British domestic holidays are being pushed to their highest levels since Covid

Drivers charging electric cars handed shock parking fines

EV owners were sent hefty PCNs but say some signs in private car parks fail to warn of fees to park and recharge car

China’s monthly car ‌exports top 1m for first time as overall trade soars

Country risks new tariffs from US and EU as it looks likely to match or beat last year’s record surplus of $1tn

The Guardian view on Volkswagen’s crisis: another wake-up call for Germany and the EU

Editorial: Robust action is needed to protect European industries from unfair competition. The alternative is social strife amid growing insecurity

US justice department investigating UAW president over corruption allegations

Shawn Fain calls allegations ‘bogus’ and says attorney holds a ‘grudge’ against him over union’s ‘anti-war stance’ on Gaza

VW chief confirms plan to cut 50,000 jobs as board rejects plant closures

Oliver Blume tells staff restructuring proposal includes ‘controversial decisions’ but he has broad support

Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’

Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

High court rejects most of ‘dieselgate’ claims brought by 1.6m UK car owners

Carmakers welcome ruling against suit claiming manufacturers including Nissan, Ford and Peugeot fitted devices to defeat emission tests

VW workers protest in Germany over proposed job cuts and factory closures

Demonstrations at 18 sites set up as radical transformation plan put to board of Europe’s biggest carmaker

German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat

VW to propose 100,000 job losses to board and says car plants could be put under foreign ownership to save jobs

Port of Dover faces ‘utter chaos’ under struggling EU entry system, MPs say

UK government urged to apply pressure on France to fix system or suspend checks by next week

EV charger rollout in UK slows amid political uncertainty and rise in installation costs

Growth in charge points falls markedly despite surge in number of rapid-charging units

Making public transport fully accessible ‘could boost UK economy by £176bn’

Report says current network of buses, trains and stations effectively locks 2.8m people out of workforce

Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers a hot topic within renewable energy