Carmaking recast: West Midlands finds new role in electric vehicle industry

Some firms reinvent themselves in the battery era, but others struggle as work moves abroad

Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk’s Twitter poll backs sell-off plan

More than 3m of billionaire’s followers vote that he should sell 10% of his stock in electric car firm

World leaders announce plan to make green tech cheaper than alternatives

UK, US and China among countries representing two-thirds of global economy to agree to push green energy and cars

Australia could become a net negative emissions economy. The technology already exists

To understand our opportunities and pressure points we need an open, inclusive, genuine process

Reasons to be hopeful: the climate solutions available now

We have every tool we need to tackle the climate crisis. Here’s what some key sectors are doing

Hertz’s supercharged Tesla deal could haul us into the electric vehicle age

The firm’s agreement to buy 100,000 cars from Elon Musk’s company could change people’s minds about EVs for good

UK battery ‘gigafactory’ plans huge expansion as electric car demand soars

Envision’s Sunderland plant produces batteries for the Nissan Leaf and other electric vehicles

UK’s net zero plan falls short on ambition and funding, say critics

Government says strategy would create 440,000 jobs, but Treasury warns taxes may need to rise to fund changes

UK public warms to road pricing as fuel duty replacement considered

Almost four in 10 back road pricing to replace fuel duty and other taxes as people switch to electric cars

Students’ solar-powered camper van turns heads on 1,800-mile road trip

Dutch team designed and built two-person van with kitchen, bed, shower, loo and range of up to 450 miles a day

UK car sales plunge but electric vehicles soar to record amid fuel crisis

Global chip shortage helps push car registrations to lowest level for more than two decades

‘False choice’: is deep-sea mining required for an electric vehicle revolution?

Deep sea mining firms claim their rare metals are necessary to power clean tech – but even major electric car firms now back a moratorium

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

We tried to transition to green jobs, but the bosses are closing our car factory down

Though we don’t want to go on strike, we can’t stand by and watch the British car industry fall victim to offshoring, says Frank Duffy, the Unite the Union planet convener at GKN Automotive in Birmingham

Sir Clive Sinclair obituary

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