ToDriveFor

To Drive For – Wheels

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • News
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Money
  • Insurance
  • Technology
  • Hybrid
  • Environment
  • Cycling

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Ulez scrappage scheme snarl-ups leave motorists facing crunch

Processing delays and baffling rejections are causing real hardship for car owners trying to be Ulez-compliant

UK installs record number of public electric vehicle chargers

About 6,000 have been installed this year, a quarter of them rapid chargers that can power up a car in under an hour

Cuts to England’s cycling and walking budget challenged in court

Campaigners say loss of £200m from active travel budget is illegal and resulted from Treasury pressure

The Observer view on overtourism: sometimes, the planet’s hotspots are best left unvisited

From Everest to Machu Picchu, we can’t get enough of those ‘must-see’ places. It’s time to show some restraint

UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

Panel of nearly 100 countries to draw up guidelines for industries that mine raw materials used in low-carbon technology

Tesla among electric carmakers forced to cut prices as market stalls

EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporary

Global battery rollout doubled last year – but needs to be six times faster, says IEA

Energy watchdog warns pace must accelerate to hit targets after new batteries increased capacity by 130%

Net zero has become unhelpful slogan, says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog

Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress

What the Cybertruck’s many failures mean for Tesla

Recall represents another ‘black eye’ for the company, which saw its share prices fall this week, wiping away all its gains this year

Cecil the campervan nearing 900,000 miles and helping clean up UK coast

Steve Green says vehicle bought in Australia in 1998 and now part of a plastic waste collection team has many more miles in it

Australians choose hybrids over EVs as sales of conventional cars decline

Hybrids outsold pure electrics in the past three quarters, according to new figures, while petrol and diesel sales fell 8%

Tory candidate for London mayor has Trumpian attitude to climate, says Khan

London mayor expected to criticise Susan Hall in speech launching solar panels on school roofs

UK startup lifts lid on plan to turn human waste into jet fuel

Low-cost airline Wizz Air puts in 525,000-tonne order for product of Firefly’s proposed refinery in Essex

EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

Ebikes and mopeds, known as electric micromobility, were responsible for two-thirds of the 1.5m barrels of oil displaced a day by EVs in 2022

Boom in mining for renewable energy minerals threatens Africa’s great apes

Researchers applaud move away from fossil fuels but say more must be done to mitigate effects on endangered species

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
  • The worst two words in the dead of night? ‘Motorway closed’
  • BMW warns on profits as it counts cost of plan for 8,000 job cuts
  • Car finance: Barclays becomes first big lender to offer payouts for mis-selling of loans
  • Sadiq Khan calls for cap on numbers of robotaxis on London streets
  • ‘I earn £126,000 – but nothing’s left at the end of the month’: readers react to the budget
  • Burnham in danger of sleepwalking into climate disaster, say campaigners
  • ‘It’s a better experience’: shoppers praise Oxford Street pedestrianisation
  • Audi boss under fire in Germany for Trump rally appearance
  • UK looking to give carmakers incentives to turn EVs into ‘power plants on wheels’
  • Stung with a parking fine for an 18-second airport stop to tackle a wasp
  • Volkswagen to build $4bn Audi SUV factory in US despite job cuts at home
  • Policy U-turn could stall Britain’s take-up of electric vehicles
  • Hammersmith Bridge is a symbol of our dysfunctional times. The money is there, the joined-up thinking isn’t
  • Potholes, bus fares and headphone dodgers: will Burnham’s strategy of ‘everyday fixes’ succeed?
  • The young Americans choosing Y2K cars over shiny new SUVs: ‘I get so much crap from people’
  • Tesla beats earnings projections after Musk floats SpaceX merger plan
  • ‘I can charge my car for £6’: could new rules cut costs for EV drivers?
  • Excessive wealth, extreme emissions – and ecocide: what I learned at Europe’s big superyacht show
  • Tuesday briefing: Can Andy Burnham beat Britain’s headphone dodgers?
  • Andy Burnham outlines new rules to outlaw ‘rip-off’ private parking fines
  • ‘Wrong’ type of credit card wrecked my Enterprise car hire pickup
  • Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport
  • Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI
  • From 3,000 feathers to pet portraits, Rolls-Royce rides high on custom craze
  • No 10 leaves option open to impose Chinese EV tariffs if UK joins EU scheme
  • Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event
  • ‘We should all be worried’: calls grow to limit London rollout of robotaxis
  • Revealed: VW, Ford and Tesla batteries linked to destructive deforestation of indigenous lands
  • Number of cloned number plates on UK roads at record high, data shows
  • France drops opposition to UK being included in ‘Made in Europe’ legislation

Contact www.todrivefor.com   Terms of Use