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

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

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

Will this be the next Mazda 2? With ...

PANDA AND INSTER TOO TITCHY for you? Similar money can bag you a 4.3m long SUV with electric power too. Vauxhall’s entire car lineup offers an EV powertrain, all of which get the £1,500 government gra

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