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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

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  • ‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers
  • ‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’
  • Secondhand EV leasing hits the fast lane as more UK drivers explore ways to cut motoring costs
  • ‘You owe parking fees’: experts warn of fake RingGo text scam
  • EVs and hybrids approach half of Australian new car sales amid ongoing fuel crisis
  • Boss of £300m used-car firm was ousted after ‘orchestrated plan’ by investors, judge rules
  • UK petrol price hits Iran war high, adding to pressure on households
  • Carmakers ‘delaying investment in UK factories until EV sales rules relaxed’
  • TfL brings case worth up to £1bn against carmakers over Ulez compliance
  • BMW to cut ‘as many as 8,000 jobs’ under pressure from Chinese rivals
  • Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porsche
  • I risk losing my livelihood because Nissan failed to repair my car
  • Summer holiday car hire: drive a great deal and avoid hidden fees
  • Four men in 20s die after car crashes into lamp-post in Merseyside
  • Mass job cuts loom at VW as profits fall steeply on China sales slump
  • Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
  • Carmakers lobbied UK to revoke ban on petrol and diesel cars after 2035
  • Burnham announces £2 bus fare cap across England from January
  • ‘A guy did a runner in a Jaguar’: the petrol theft scandal – and the garage owner struggling to stop it
  • EU border chaos feared at Dover crossing as busiest summer weekend looms
  • Drivers charging electric cars handed shock parking fines
  • China’s monthly car ‌exports top 1m for first time as overall trade soars
  • The Guardian view on Volkswagen’s crisis: another wake-up call for Germany and the EU
  • US justice department investigating UAW president over corruption allegations
  • VW chief confirms plan to cut 50,000 jobs as board rejects plant closures
  • Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’
  • High court rejects most of ‘dieselgate’ claims brought by 1.6m UK car owners
  • VW workers protest in Germany over proposed job cuts and factory closures
  • German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat
  • Port of Dover faces ‘utter chaos’ under struggling EU entry system, MPs say

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