Millionth pure battery electric car sold in UK after 20 years Industry lobby group says 2m could be reached within two years in rapid shift away from polluting fossil fuels
Jaguar tells ministers stopping car thefts more important than tax cuts As JLR reveals highest quarterly profit since 2017, its boss calls for UK to spend more on policing
‘Ecocidal disgrace’: activists sabotage Quebec battery factory site in protest Northvolt, a Swedish battery maker, has planned a ‘gigafactory’ in the region, which protesters have called an ‘ecocidal disgrace’
The Guardian view on the Tory low tax, free trade pitch: a hard sell in a world that needs neither Editorial: Jeremy Hunt has an almost religious belief that the invisible hand of the market works – even when it punches Britons
‘Cheaper to save the world than destroy it’: why capitalism is going green Akshat Rathi argues that around the world economies are switching to clean technology as prices drop
Have Australian drivers finally charged into electric vehicles? EV sales are booming and longtime favourite makes and models are being ignored in favour of Tesla and BYD
White House unveils $623m in funding to boost electric vehicle charging points Funding comes amid concerns transition to zero-carbon transportation isn’t keeping pace with goals to tackle climate crisis
EU announces €4bn state aid to back battery and green tech factories Support aims to stop production being lured overseas with promise of bigger foreign subsidies
BT to transform old street cabinets into electric vehicle chargers Pilot scheme in Scotland will involve engineers retrofitting cabinets originally used for cables
Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut Stalled growth in electric vehicles comes despite government goal to phase out petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles by 2035
Big carmakers lobbied UK to weaken or delay electric car rules Exclusive: Submissions seen from companies on both sides of zero-emission vehicle mandate
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
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’
Do electric cars really produce fewer carbon emissions than petrol or diesel vehicles? In part five of our series exploring myths surrounding EVs, we assess the greenwashing claims
Making the switch to electric vehicles: ‘The biggest shock was the huge savings’ UK motorists outline the pros and cons in making the move to an electric vehicle