35 h. ago 'We reviewed every electric car on the market and there was one clear winner'

A group of automotive experts have reviewed almost every single electric car on the market and revealed which model they think is the best. In fact, one car was so good they made it their car of the year for 2025, beating petrol, diesel and hydrogen rivals

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3 d. ago Why are electric cars getting cheaper? Here's three reasons new EVs now cost as little as £15,000

2025's seeing £15k new EVs hitting the market, as well as a major luxury car maker unveiling a £40K EV with 495 miles of range. So, why are EVs finally getting cheaper?

Economics

8 d. ago What is up with car door handles these days? | Dave Schilling

Why is everything computerised, automated or impossible to turn off these days?I believe, deep in my soul, that car companies’ number one goal in life is to ruin the experience of driving. I don’t have any direct evidence of this conspiracy to rob us of the pleasure of the open road, other than the cacophony of beeps, blips, bloops and blops that greet us in the latest models. Oh, and the screens. Every year, they try to find a new place to glue a touchscreen in a car, like Pizza Hut hunting for more orifices to stuff cheese into one of their pies.Everything is computerized, automated or impossible to turn off. According to surveys of new-car buyers by the market research firm Strategic Vision, satisfaction with car controls plummeted by 23 percentage points in the last nine years. The whiz-bang gizmos foisted on the North American car buyer have devolved from the glorious, life-saving back-up camera to gesture controls that allow you to turn an invisible knob to crank up the volume...

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1 week ago We’ve driven the new Tesla Model Y – is this the return of the EV king?

The new Tesla Model Y rights the wrongs of its predecessor to send it to the top of the class – it’s now the EV SUV everyone must beat

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1 week ago Living with the Mini Aceman: What it’s like when an icon goes electric

Our editor replaced his usual car with the Aceman to see how it holds up in the real world – here’s how it went

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2 w. ago Ed Miliband 'risking power shortages' in his race to make Britain more reliant on 'intermittent renewables', MPs warn

In a 'fresh humiliation' for the Energy Secretary, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticised the time being taken on reviews of gas and electricity prices.

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2 w. ago From repairs to insurance, Trump's auto tariffs could make owning a car more expensive

Even if you’re not in the market for a new car, U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports could make owning one more expensive

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2 w. ago Best electric cleaning brush for a deep clean: Spin scrubbers and more, tried and tested

For when elbow grease just won’t cut it

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2 w. ago BYD Sealion 7 review: Fast SUV lags behind Tesla on price and range

The Sealion 7 should be a big seller for BYD – it’s a rival for the Tesla Model Y, the world’s top-selling car – but will its price and range count against it?

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3 w. ago Tesla stake is no longer Elon Musk’s most valuable asset amid stock market sell

SpaceX, Musk’s private rockets and satellites business, is now largest asset for the first time in five yearsUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk’s vast stake in Tesla is no longer his most valuable asset as the electric car company continues to endure a sharp stock market sell-off.Musk’s stake in SpaceX, his private rockets and satellites business, is now the billionaire tycoon’s largest asset for the first time in five years, according to Forbes, which still pegs his net worth at $323bn – more than anyone else in the world. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project review – electric film about radical thinker and poet

Featuring interviews and archive footage of the brilliant civil rights activist, the readings of her poems will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing upNikki Giovanni, bestselling American poet and civil rights activist, blazed on to the scene in the 1960s. In this documentary, completed before she died in December, we watch Giovanni in her late 70s, reigning over sold-out public appearances. On stage she recites poems about love, race and gender and in between, with the timing of a standup comedian, she has the auditorium erupting in whoops and laughter. Posing for selfies, a woman tells Giovanni she named her daughter after her; another says she wrote to her on the verge of dropping out of college. “You wrote back. I’m a teacher now!”In archive footage, Giovanni as a young woman, reads her 1968 poem Nikki-Rosa, which has a line about how white people fail to understand the lives of black people: “they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood / and never understand that ...

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last month Netflix viewers urged to skip 'disappointing' film that had '$320 million budget'

The new film from Anthony and Joe Russo reportedly cost an eye-watering amount to make

Economics