Evs are making our air cleaner yet a cloud still hangs over them. so is battery production the environmental disaster people think it is?

THE MINERALS FOUND IN AN ELECTRIC-CAR BATTERY often travel thousands of miles around the world before the vehicles they will be in hit the road. Lithium mined in Chile or Argentina is shipped to China

An old-fashioned hardback book often still beats the internet, doesn’t it? When you can get hold of one. Right now, there’s one, in a package with my name on it, stuck somewhere between a second-hand

BMW has developed an all-new material as a more sustainable replacement for carbon fibre, which is now ready for development and set to be used on the brand’s production cars – including the new elect

The global electricity grid is expanding fast, says Ole Hansen of Saxo Bank. Copper – “the world’s most efficient and versatile industrial conductor” – lies at the centre of a commodities megatrend fu

Surrey-based EV motor developer Protean has its roots in a firm called PML Flightlink, which made headlines in 2006 when it fitted four in-wheel motors (IWMs) to a Mini Cooper to give 640bhp, a sub-5.

Coming soon to a railway near you… CHRIS HOWE selects his top 20 innovative products that will improve railway safety, accessibility and efficiency