Britishvolt gets £100m boost to build UK’s first large-scale ‘gigafactory’
The deal to build an electric car battery plant near Blyth will bring up to 3,000 jobs to the area by 2028
Cargo without carbon: the rise and rise of e-bike deliveries
Demand for electric cargo bike couriers has boomed since first lockdown, bringing the hope of cleaner, quieter, safer streets
A car-free London is within our reach
Sadiq Khan’s pledge to cut traffic by 27% is welcome, but more must be done – for residents’ health, says Hirra Khan Adeogun of climate charity Possible
Sadiq Khan proposes journey charge for motorists in London
Mayor says air pollution and climate crisis are issues of ‘social justice’ in capital and across the globe
Why was I fined £90 for charging my electric car at Lidl?
A reader asks why they were penalised even though they paid to use the charger
Streets ahead? What I’ve learned from my year with an electric car
Record sales and now news of a battery that lasts hundreds of miles. It’s getting better, but going green was tough, admits a reluctant pioneer
‘Motorcycling is a very sensual thing’: will bikers accept losing their vroom?
The advent of electric vehicles will eventually extend to motorbikes, despite a deep cultural attachment to the internal combustion engine on two wheels
Carmakers report booming UK sales of electric vehicles
Around 190,000 battery electric cars were sold amid disruption to global supply chains
Rocky road: Paraguay’s new Chaco highway threatens rare forest and last of the Ayoreo people
Forced from their homes by missionaries, the Ayoreo cling on in the Chaco. Now the Bioceanic Corridor cuts through the fastest-vanishing forest on Earth, refuge of some of the Americas’ last hunter-gatherers
From flying taxis to painless vaccines: seven businesses to watch this year
Our business writers pick their contenders for the headlines in 2022, from startups to venerable high street favourites
Animal crossings: the ecoducts helping wildlife navigate busy roads across the world
India’s tiger corridor and Australia’s possum ‘tunnel of love’ are among the myiad infrastructure projects providing safe passage
Tesco to begin UK’s first commercial use of fully electric HGVs
Two 37-tonne lorries will serve supermarket’s Magor distribution centre in Wales from January
Argy-bargy in Bruges: canal boat operators forced to let outsiders ply their trade
Five families who have run the city’s famous tours for decades face potential competition from China – and, even worse, nearby Ghent
Rio Tinto puts Serbia lithium mine on hold
Chief executive seeks public dialogue, suggesting protests against Loznica project have hindered any ‘reasonable debate’
How electric vehicles have helped labor and climate groups team up
Revitalized alliance could help strengthen both the fight for reducing emissions and for bolstering worker rights