Why mazda’s returned to rotary

Let’s wind back to 2012: Britain is gripped by Olympic fever as Vauxhall launches the Ampera and the UK’s first ‘plug-in’ hybrid decisively beats the Volkswagen Up to European Car of the Year glory in

Engineers don’t like plug-in hybrids. It’s the ‘two engines rather than one’ factor, and all that extra associated ballast. Marketing types have always liked them, though – dare I say, because they un

ONE of the big EV innovators that helped to push electric cars into the mainstream has been completely reimagined. Where once the Nissan Leaf was a sensible, somewhat awkward-looking C-segment hatchba

‘ EVangelists’ love to shout that range doesn’t matter because many people can charge at home and because the rapid-charge network has become really quite sophisticated. But the fact is that autonomy

HONDA has confirmed it will reveal its Super EV concept at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. The small, city-focused electric car is the successor to the company’s slow-selling Honda e. Little i

PLUG-in hybrid cars, depending on who you believe, are either a wasteful technological dead-end or a sensible compromise and valuable stepping stone to pure-electric vehicles. The truth, as ever, is m