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Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars

July 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: Tesla hands over first cars produced at new plant in Gruenheide<br>FILE PHOTO: Model Y cars are pictured during the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

    Tesla sales fall for second straight quarter despite price cuts

    Electric automaker’s quarterly deliveries fell for two straight quarters for the first time ever

June 2024

  • Volta electric truck parked in central London

    UK haulage industry calls for investment in electric truck infrastructure

  • huge fields of solar panels next to a field of green crops

    Project Syndicate economists
    It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

    Jeffrey Frankel
  • electric vehicles are assembled

    Rivian shares surge after Volkswagen agrees to $5bn investment

  • Volvo V60 in a rural setting

    Volvo does a sharp U-turn as the boxy estates and saloons return to Britain

  • Carbon emissions from vans still rising as UK drivers cling to diesel

  • Electric carmaker Fisker files for US bankruptcy protection

  • BYD: China’s electric vehicle powerhouse charges into Europe

  • EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms

  • Observer business agenda
    Tesla leads charge to defend Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package

  • Investment in clean energy likely to be double figure for fossil fuels in 2024, IEA says

  • ‘Yes, Lego car!’: why small electric cars could be about to break the grip of SUVs

May 2024

  • A Tesla Model Y at an EV charging station in Sydney

    Change by degrees
    Price driven: electric cars have never been cheaper. Is it now time to buy an EV?

  • a silver-blue Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, a large SUV, is seen side-on parked on a tiled driveway in front of a house with a mock-Tudor black and white frontage, white front door and windowframes, and white picket fence. A yellow cable is seen emerging from the charging port which is behind a flap in the car's rear wing, and this trails behind the car to the power source.

    Plug-in hybrid cars ‘costing £500 a year more to refuel than lab tests suggest’

  • Jeff Dodds at the Mexico City ePrix standing with arms folded in front of a car.

    Observer business profile
    Jeff Dodds: the Formula E boss planning a move into pole position

  • Elon Musk speaks during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024

    Tesla boss Elon Musk criticises US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

  • The Guardian view on free trade: an idea whose time has gone

  • Brief letters
    Small steps towards sustainable gardens

  • Electric cars more likely to hit pedestrians than petrol vehicles, study finds

  • Janet Yellen urges EU to join US in curbs on cheap Chinese exports

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