SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report
Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities
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Chinese *public EV chargers* use more electricity than Greece 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ySfP7HHVem— Justin Guay (@Guay_JG) January 8, 2024
Tesla overtaken by China’s BYD as world’s biggest EV maker
Fourth-quarter sales from Elon Musk’s group beat estimates but fall behind Chinese rival for the first time
Philippe Starck designs minimalist refuelling station that highlights the "nothingness" of hydrogen
Philippe Starck has created HRS by Starck, a hydrogen refuelling station that features a mirror-polished stainless-steel casing and dichroic glass.
Car wars
A flood of cheap Chinese imports is upsetting the global industrial order.
Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars
The new light would enable autonomous vehicles to help control traffic flow – and let human drivers know what’s going on.
Australian student invents affordable electric car conversion kit
Australian design student Alexander Burton has developed a prototype kit for cheaply converting petrol or diesel cars to hybrid electric.
Volvo is finally phasing out diesel cars next year in favor of an all-electric future
Volvo’s last diesel-powered car will roll out next year as the Swedish automaker looks toward an all-electric future. As one...
*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed
Driverless Tesla Crashes Into $3 Million Private Jet
A video of a driverless Tesla Model Y slowly crashing into a private jet worth around $3 million is going viral. Shared on Reddit, the user said that the car...
UK cyclist fatalities lowest in 30 years in 2022
The charity Cycling UK has released new analysis showing that the number of people killed while cycling, per billion miles, on British roads fell by nearly a quarter compared with pre-pandemic years.
AI breakthrough could dramatically reduce planes’ global warming impact
Contrails currently account for a third of global warming from aviation
Amsterdam to close cruise ship terminal amid effort to restrict tourism
Move by city council follows action to limit public cannabis use and to discourage wild partying by young Britons