Busy roads and airports expected over late-May UK bank holiday weekend

More than 3,000 planes scheduled to take off on Friday, with road traffic peaking as leisure trips coincide with commuting

‘Very, very hot’: Japanese backpacker nears Cairns after travelling 3,000km across Australia on a scooter

Uni set out from Melbourne in late January and is due to arrive at his destination on Saturday

Climate activists disrupt Europe’s biggest private jet fair

Protesters from Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion and others chain themselves to aircraft in Geneva

‘Few options that are cheap’: why are there no affordable cars in the US?

The average transaction price for a new vehicle is $47,713 – a third more than what Americans paid five years ago

Get a grip, Westminster – Suella Braverman speeding is hardly the issue of the day

There are many reasons the home secretary may not be right for the job, but this inflated drama isn’t one of them, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

RAC was supposed to get my broken-down car home. But it’s lost it

It couldn’t repair it roadside and now it has effectively disappeared

Brexit has wrecked Britain’s car industry, but so have the Tories

As carmakers warn that London must renegotiate its deal with Brussels, a lack of government policy is also plaguing the sector

Hyundai and Kia settle lawsuit worth $200m over vehicle theft due to TikTok

A trend on the app, which started spreading in 2021, challenged users to steal cars made by the automakers using a USB cable

‘We’re going all in’: how France raced ahead of UK on electric car batteries

State subsidies and industry backing pull in foreign investment as country creates ‘Battery Valley’

Jaguar Land Rover owner offered £500m in subsidies to build battery plant in UK

Incentive from Jeremy Hunt comes only days after three carmakers issued Brexit rules warning

Kemi Badenoch says global carmakers’ UK concerns ‘nothing to do with Brexit’ – as it happened

Latest updates: business and trade secretary dismisses calls from global carmakers for Brexit deal to be renegotiated

Bank of England denies QE caused double-digit inflation; mortgage arrears and repossessions jump – as it happened

Central bank chiefs tell MPs that unwinding QE is more like descending a mountain than decommissioning a nuclear submarine

Rishi Sunak says UK in talks with EU to allay carmakers’ Brexit concerns

PM’s comments come after Germany’s automotive industry joined calls for extension to trade deadline

Jeep maker Stellantis demands billions to keep battery plant in Canada

World’s fourth biggest carmaker threatens to move production to US unless government matches incentives offered to Volkswagen

Vauxhall owner probably isn’t blameless, but UK needs to switch on to the car crisis

Stellantis may be premature in saying Brexit deal will force closures, but government needs a serious policy