‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’

Wayve Uber wins first minicab licence for autonomous cabs from TfL but vehicles will have a safety driver (at first)

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porsche

Former co-presenter of BBC motoring show given penalty after being caught twice in three weeks

I’m a self-employed driving instructor and I’m running out of cash to hire a replacement dual-control vehicle

BMW, Ford, Nissan and Toyota, plus parts maker Bosch, wrote joint letter to ministers in April

EV owners were sent hefty PCNs but say some signs in private car parks fail to warn of fees to park and recharge car

Shifting demands and political ideology have left the industry vulnerable to global competition from cheap Chinese cars

The US motor company found that the hundreds of AI cameras being used for design and manufacturing checks were prone to pitfalls

RJ Scaringe says firms focused on selling fossil fuel engines risk being ‘woefully behind’ on technology by end of decade

Firm has been developing full EV version of its top-selling model in Europe at its plant in Sunderland

Smaller, cheaper cars built for narrow city streets are becoming more stylish – but require careful design decisions

Apart from effort to electrify, there were geopolitical tensions around climate science and the 1.5C goal at pre-Cop31 climate talks

Drive to appeal to wealthy Americans is part of pivot away from previously announced all-electric strategy

British vehicles will emit extra 17m tonnes of CO2 by 2030 due to loophole allowing sale of more PHEVs, data suggests

Some analysts question whether design of Luce, starting at $640,000, lives up to sportscar car brand’s heritage

Department for Transport is understood to back reducing levy, which critics have called a ‘pavement tax’