Paris residents set to vote on plan to triple parking charges for SUVs

Green campaigners hope to win landmark vote, which is being watched closely by other cities such as London

‘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’

UK roads being built without ministerial oversight, say environment campaigners

National Highways pushing ahead with projects ‘behind wall of secrecy’

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report

Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities

Country diary: The satnav sacrifice – villages like this are no longer so tranquil

Little Barford, Bedfordshire: Virtually everyone who drives is thankful to technology for helping us to dodge traffic. Those who suffer the consequences might feel differently

‘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

Oxford becomes UK’s electric bus capital as 159 vehicles join fleet

Private operators are guaranteed faster journey times by the council in return for investment

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

‘Paying too much’: what could you save on your holiday road trip if Australia had fuel-efficiency standards?

Climate Council finds average Australian car needs more petrol to travel same distance as more efficient models common overseas

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

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

‘They’ve knocked down hundreds of trees’: concerns over Cornwall’s new anti-gridlock road

The infamous A30 summer bottleneck will go when dual carriageway opens in March, boosting the local tourism economy. But for some residents the cost is too high

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary: ‘There isn’t enough cooking oil in the world to power one day of green aviation’

The explosive airline boss with a big bonus looming sees the need for climate action – but points out ships and cars are big emitters too