UK electric car inquiries soar during fuel supply crisis

Sellers of plug-in vehicles say petrol shortages are driving people to adopt the new technology

Electric vehicles divide opinion as car-loving Germany goes to polls

Election has framed future of automobility as showdown between petrolheads and green zealots

Inventor who brought pocket calculators and the earliest accessible computers into British homes

If the demand is stronger than forecast, UK will face reduced tax revenue and greater congestion

A retired bishop faces a bigger tax bill after swapping his old diesel VW for an environmentally friendly vehicle

Proposal by Great Britain’s regulator is to help make the switch from fossil fuel cars more affordable

Oil firm sets out plans to provide a third of Britain’s network needed to hit climate targets

The quest to prevent batteries – rich in raw materials such as cobalt, lithium and nickel – ending up as a mountain of waste

Some prototypes exist, but firms have struggled to commercialise a durable solid-state battery

Swiss-based mining outfit faces bribery investigations in the US and UK over its operations in DRC

Anglo-Australian company plans to simplify structure and shift main stock exchange listing to Sydney

UK’s first large-scale battery producer welcomes partnership with major cobalt miner

… while Citroen goes the extra mile to keep a customer

When it comes to facing up to the reality of combatting climate change, the Coalition has utterly failed

Region has fastest-growing network with number of electric vehicles in Coventry alone tripling in three years