As England play their final group game of their Euro 2024 campaign against Slovenia this evening, there’s already one winner from this summer’s festival of football… China. BYD, the official automotive partner of this year’s UEFA European Football Championship, has already scored big as car buyers across Britain have ramped up searches for its electric … Read more
The numbers have been counted and verified… and the world’s best-selling car of 2023 can now be revealed, with Tesla Model Y taking the crown. The SUV from Elon Musk’s US electric vehicle brand topped the global sales charts with 1.22million bought by customers worldwide. Below, we reveal which 25 models were purchased in biggest … Read more
Polestar is arguably Tesla’s biggest rival in Britain and, at this point, one of the better-known exclusively electric brands across Europe. But until now the Swedish firm – the green performance arm of Volvo – has sold only the Polestar 2 while teasing plans to add to the line-up in a bid to take on … Read more
Britons now have the choice of more than 100 different electric car models for the first time, it has been confirmed. The variety of different battery-powered vehicles in showrooms has grown by more than 500 per cent in the last decade, with only 16 electric variants on sale in the UK back in 2014. However, … Read more
The electric vehicle charging industry is the latest target car crime with cable thefts said to be on the rise. Experts are warning that thieves are after the copper in cables at rapid and ultra-rapid charger sites, in a spate of criminality dating back to November. Autocar says Instavolt – Britain’s largest operator of rapid … Read more
Would you buy a Chinese electric car? No matter your answer, the fact of the matter is that brands from China are starting to flood the UK market, offering a number of electric vehicles that can match the performance and range of legacy European and Japanese makers for a fraction of the price. But are … Read more
The new Mini Aceman is coming to a road near you very soon to fill the crossover-size electric vehicle (EV) hole in the BMW-owned brand’s range between the Cooper supermini and the Countryman SUV. Mini latest electric offering – the Aceman – has been unveiled at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition this week – and … Read more
The very first all-electric Range Rover is due to be unveiled later this year – but we’ve already been given an initial glimpse of how the battery-powered luxury SUV will look and perform. Parent company JLR (formerly Jaguar Land Rover) has revealed images and footage of its debut electric Range Rover during final-stage testing in … Read more
Britain is better suited for a switch to electric cars than any of our European neighbours. That’s according to a new report looking at how easily different countries could switch to EVs based on current driving patterns. Two-thirds of UK cars and vans currently used by private owners and public sector organisations could easily be … Read more
The number of vehicles on the road in 2023 reached another record high, but carbon emissions still managed to fall thanks to a surge in electric vehicle uptake. New data from Motorparc, published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), showed more than 41 million vehicles on Britain’s roads last year, with one … Read more
