“plug wars are over”

THE CHANCES ARE that if you drive a petrol or diesel car and find that you need more fuel part-way through a long journey, you don’t give it much thought, because you know you’ll be able to locate a s

Three years ago, Nissan celebrated building 250,000 Leafs at its Sunderland plant by using one to power a giant Christmas tree, complete with reindeer, outside the factory. There was snow (real, not f

I wonder which stage industry boffins think we’re in now. Two short years ago, the bosses of McLaren Applied (now an independent engineering firm, Motion Applied) reckoned electric car development wou

CAR editor-at-large and Nostradamus-in-chief Mark Walton doesn’t like ...

Ford is preparing to launch a chunky new ‘Bronco’ SUV in Europe, inspired by its iconic US-market 4x4 flagship. Plans for the model were first discovered by Autocar (3 September), and Automotive News

The UK government’s new pay-per-mile tax on electric cars will also apply to plug-in hybrid cars, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her long-awaited Autumn Budget. The new charge is set to cost an