14 h. ago New Motability Scheme update for disabled people considering an Electric Vehicle for their next car

Around 815,000 people across Great Britain are now leasing a vehicle or equipment through the Motability Scheme.

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15 h. ago Tesla Model Y Performance review: The best Tesla yet is an SUV supercar slayer

Tesla’s new top model gets a hot makeover that not only makes it more fun to drive, but also makes it more comfortable and better built

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31 h. ago Citroen C5 Aircross review: A comfort king with mighty range

Citroen’s new flagship SUV offers dream-like ride quality, decent tech and a cavernous interior for not that much money

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61 h. ago Citroen C5 Aircross review: A comfort king with a 422 mile range

Citroen’s new flagship SUV offers dream-like ride quality, decent tech and a cavernous interior for not that much money

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64 h. ago M5 LIVE: Huge traffic queues with truck 'fully on fire' as motorway closed

A car transporter carrying electric vehicles has burst into flames on the M5 with the motorway closed in both directions between J28 (Cullompton) and J29 (Exeter) due to the HGV fire

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3 d. ago Police car crash with suspected stolen vehicle shuts part of A465

A slip road on the A465 Heads of The Valleys Road has been closed for almost 12 hours due to the incident

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3 d. ago Josh Hartnett hospitalised after car accident as SUV crashes into police vehicle

Actor Josh Hartnett was hospitalised after the SUV he was travelling in collided with a police vehicle in Newfoundland, Canada, in the early hours of Thursday, 25 September

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3 d. ago Josh Hartnett injured in car crash with Canadian police vehicle during trip to film Netflix project

Police say actor suffered minor injuries during trip to St John’s to film new Netflix project

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3 d. ago My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything

Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was paralysed during a botched police raid. It was the end of his childhood and the start of his fight for her life and legacyWhen Lee Lawrence’s son, Brandon, picked him up from hospital after a minor operation recently, Brandon thought he saw a car following them. Lawrence looked round and told his son he didn’t think it was anything to worry about. But then the car – which turned out to be an undercover police vehicle – put its siren on. It overtook them and did a hard stop. “I expected to see guns come out next,” says Lawrence. “I thought: ‘What the hell is going on?’ I got upset. My son was trying to calm me down, because I was thinking: ‘How could this be happening to my son?’”Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot and paralysed in 1985 by an armed police officer during a botched raid on her home. Community fury over Groce’s shooting would spark a two-day uprising in Brixton, south London. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U

San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn’t issued, as ‘our citation books don’t have a box for “robot”’If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week.During a DUI enforcement operation, officers in San Bruno pulled over a car without anyone behind the wheel after the autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn at a light. A post by the San Bruno police department on Saturday shows an officer looking into a Waymo – the leading autonomous ride-hailing vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area – after stopping the signature white car. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Electric car 'myths' around range anxiety and high vehicle price is putting drivers off

Drivers are being put off the idea of owning an EV because of 'myths' about range anxiety, high vehicle prices and steep charging costs, according to a new report.

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4 d. ago German identity doesn’t rely on cars – Brussels should face down the mighty automakers

Mercedes-Benz and other big manufacturers want to overturn the EU’s 2035 ban on petrol cars. This would be as disastrous for jobs as for the climateThere is something rather old-fashioned about the way Germany views its car industry. When the prime minister of Bavaria, Markus Söder, calls the car the destiny of Germany and the heart of its economy, and says that “without the car, collapse is imminent”, the vehicle he seems to be describing is one with a combustion engine, running on fossil fuels or their derivatives. This nostalgic attachment to the heavy-duty, polluting industries of the 20th century is now colliding with the urgent realities of the climate crisis.Earlier this month, heads of European automotive companies gathered in the Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, for a meeting with its president, Ursula von der Leyen. German car manufacturers came with two demands: to reverse the EU ban on the manufacture of new cars with CO2-emit...

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4 d. ago German identity doesn’t rely on cars – Brussels should face down the mighty automakers | Tania Roettger

Mercedes-Benz and other big manufacturers want to overturn the EU’s 2035 ban on petrol cars. This would be as disastrous for jobs as for the climateThere is something rather old-fashioned about the way Germany views its car industry. When the prime minister of Bavaria, Markus Söder, calls the car the destiny of Germany and the heart of its economy, and says that “without the car, collapse is imminent”, the vehicle he seems to be describing is one with a combustion engine, running on fossil fuels or their derivatives. This nostalgic attachment to the heavy-duty, polluting industries of the 20th century is now colliding with the urgent realities of the climate crisis.Earlier this month, heads of European automotive companies gathered in the Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, for a meeting with its president, Ursula von der Leyen. German car manufacturers came with two demands: to reverse the EU ban on the manufacture of new cars with CO2-emit...

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7 d. ago Northamptonshire Police officer Faizaan Najeeb dies after car crash on duty

PC Faizaan Najeeb, aged 24, was attending a single-vehicle crash in Raunds, Northamptonshire, when his car was in collision with a blue Volkswagen Polo on Station Road

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9 d. ago CCTV footage captures car smashing into parked vehicle before it drives off

The owner of the car described it as 'a nightmare'

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9 d. ago Drivers sent DVLA letter demanding £195 as they face significant rule change

A driver has been left perplexed after receiving a letter demanding he pays 195 in car tax, despite owning an electric vehicle that is supposed to be exempt from the charge

Economics

9 d. ago A drunk driver hit our car, my three friends died, and I began a fight for my life – and my ballet career

At 20, Marc Brew was the sole survivor of a terrible crash that killed his fellow dancers. Paralysed from the chest down, he had to learn to live in a new, uncharted realityMarc Brew was sitting in the back seat of a car on a motorway near Johannesburg, telling jokes and laughing with his friends, when a pickup came hurtling down the wrong side of the road towards them. “Out of nowhere, I just remember seeing this white flash,” says Brew, who was 20 at the time. The truck, which he later found out had a drunk driver at the wheel, drove straight into the car he was in. The crash killed everyone else in the vehicle.Nine months previously, Brew had moved from Australia to South Africa to join the Pact ballet company, based in Pretoria. That Saturday, he had attended his usual morning dance classes, before he and his friend Joanne, another member of the company, set off with her brother, Simon, and Simon’s fiancee’s brother, Toby, towards a game reserve where they had planned to go bush...

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1 week ago ‘Guess what?’ Macron phones Trump after US president’s motorcade blocks his car

Bemused French president forced to take unscheduled 30-minute trek through the streets of New YorkEmmanuel Macron had to walk half an hour by foot through New York after his speech to the United Nations on recognising Palestine as a state.Video footage shows him getting out of his car to talk to police officers after they stop his vehicle to make way for the expected arrival of the motorcade of Donald Trump, the US president. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Electric vehicle becomes world's fastest car after reaching mind

An electric car produced by Yangwang, owned by BYD, has become the first production car to exceed 305mph in Germany, beating the fearsome Bugatti Chiron

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2 w. ago Car theft gang jailed after stealing over 100 vehicles worth more than £1.7 million

Four men have been jailed after the Met Police linked them to over 100 vehicle thefts

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