Electric Vehicles

Funding awards totaling £38m designed to boost green automotive R&D

Taxi booking service adds first Tesla cabs to its fleet as it pledges to make a quarter of its minicabs low or zero emission by 2020

Bus set to start running on capital's roads in a month's time

French carmaker plans to partner with Utrecht City Council to create city-wide car sharing network powered by renewable energy

Plan would see most polluting vehicles banned from Central London and 'bad air days' warnings given to Londoners

Firm says it has now shipped more than 20,000 charge points

Sales could reach $30bn by 2026, predicts IDTechEx report

Vehicle-to-grid chargers and used electric car batteries will create world's largest grid-integrated electric vehicle system

From 'platoons' to 'automated ecodriving ', Zia Wadud of the University of Leeds looks at the environmental benefits (and costs) on offer from emerging driverless vehicle technologies

We don't have to wait until 2025 to see the demise of coal in the UK - it's happening right before our eyes