Electric vehicle boom could hit major roadblock in just 5 years

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

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

THE GOVERNMENT IS failing in a commitment to switch to electric vehicles (EVs) for its own fleet, despite continuing to demand that these models account for 80% of all new car sales in the UK by 2030.

The next wave of Kia EVs is being prepared for launch by the end of the decade, among them an entry-level model as well as a next-generation architecture that will underpin replacements for the likes

LOTUS is a test case on how hard the road to electric motoring will be. The legendary British sports car brand has introduced two impressive clean-sheet EVs – the Eletre SUV and Emeya saloon – in just