Lotus produces record 2,200 sports cars in first half of 2023
British carmaker also gearing up for sales of new Eletre electric SUV under Chinese owner Geely’s expansion plans
Cornish Lithium secures £53.6m to open first mine for the metal in Britain
UK Infrastructure Bank leads funding of project to extract compounds used for electric vehicle batteries
Britishvolt buyer yet to make final payment in deal to rescue battery firm
Administrators say Recharge Industries is in default of sale agreement, which parent firm denies
What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry
People scoffed at the idea of electric vehicles for the masses. But now a Tesla hatchback has outsold the Toyota Corolla
How electric cars became a battleground in the culture wars
EVs have become weaponised amid fears over cost of shift to battery power and job losses at carmakers
Kemi Badenoch casts doubt on electric car targets over job loss fears
Mandate for carmakers to sell increasing number of zero-emissions vehicles could be weakened, business secretary hints
Battery power: how China could take charge of the electric vehicle market
The country’s manufacturers are starting to dominate not just sales charts, but also supply chains for crucial materials
Jaguar Land Rover ‘will not slow move to electric’ even if UK delays 2030 petrol car ban
Rishi Sunak failed to publicly back deadline but carmaker’s boss says its ‘plans will stay the same’
Tata’s gigafactory gives Britain’s battery industry potential at last
The Jaguar Land Rover owner’s new plant should encourage more similar investments in the UK by others
Tesla beats Wall Street expectations to produce record number of vehicles
Report comes amid concerns Elon Musk, who owns SpaceX, Neuralink and Twitter, is spread too thin
Tata’s £4bn gigafactory plan fills in a major blank for UK car industry
With 180,000 workers in the sector, the planned plant is a big win for Britain in a game it could not afford to lose
Rishi Sunak hails Jaguar Land Rover pledge for £4bn UK gigafactory
Tata project likely to be in Somerset and will be one of Europe’s biggest battery cell manufacturing sites
Jaguar Land Rover owner expected to announce Somerset battery gigafactory
Announcement on Tata Group plant, which could create thousands of jobs and receive significant state funding, may come on Wednesday
In America’s ‘Voltage Valley’, hopes of car-making revival turn sour
EV manufacturer Lordstown Motors, lauded by Trump in 2020, has gone bankrupt – what now for the once-proud auto-making region?
Is China really leading the clean energy revolution? Not exactly
The country generates more solar energy than the rest of the world combined, but burns half the planet’s coal, says Li Shuo of Greenpeace East Asia