What’s red and sounds like £400,000? An electric Ferrari – once you add fake engine noises

The Italian marque is exploring how its future sports cars could keep their signature engine roar rather than drive in silence. With speakers broadcasting on the outside, of course!

Bid by Australian startup Recharge could revive UK battery company Britishvolt

Recharge Industries, which also plans a factory in Geelong, says nonbinding offer is in the company’s interests, as well as that of ‘our friends in the UK’

Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc

By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

EU ‘could end reliance on China for electric car batteries by 2030’

Prediction predicated on investment that keeps pace with Joe Biden’s $369bn green subsidy spree

Business minister boasted Britishvolt was Brexit success story months before collapse

Electric car battery firm planned to build large facility in Northumberland with government funds if it found investors

The Observer view on the free market thinking that failed Britishvolt

The government’s hands-off approach meant the odds were against the EV battery startup from the start

Britishvolt: how Britain’s bright battery future fell flat

Startup that hoped to transform UK car production was once valued at more than £800m, but collapsed worth a tiny fraction of that

‘Super-tipping points’ could trigger cascade of climate action

Small interventions on electric cars and plant-based meat could unlock rapid emissions cuts, say experts

UK net zero report: what are its recommendations and conclusions?

What seeks to be comprehensive review actually contains huge gaps and is devastating assessment of Tories’ failures

Thailand’s tuk-tuks go green amid rising demand for electric models

Travel without the combustion-engine fumes and noise is increasingly popular in the country with some of the world’s worst air pollution

Electric vehicle sales accelerate to record highs in New Zealand

Environmental awareness and government-backed subsidies have contributed to the spike, while Australian purchases remain stuck in the slow lane

Where does the Britishvolt collapse leave UK’s dream of an electric future?

Britain’s car industry relies on petrol or diesel vehicles – and every failure to be part of the electric revolution makes it more exposed

Polestar boss Thomas Ingenlath’s drive for a truly emission-free car

The Swedish-based electric carmaker has pulled ahead of rivals thanks to its no-factory model and Chinese partner, but its boss want to remove carbon from the production process too

Battery startup Britishvolt enters administration as rescue talks fail

Staff told majority of firm’s 300 employees would be immediately made redundant on Tuesday morning

Tesla cuts prices by up to a fifth in US and Europe as EV price war starts

Price of cheapest Model 3 saloon car dropped by £5,500 to £42,990 to combat slowing demand as carmaker shares drop