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Travel and transport

November 2023

  • Selfie on sail boat at sunrise

    Change by degrees
    Overseas over seas: how hard is it to travel internationally from Australia without flying?

  • Road markings signalling vehicle charging point

    Rishi Sunak’s net zero delay ‘will slash demand for electric cars’

  • Superyacht illustration

    The great carbon divide
    ‘I cannot stress too much about it’: Monaco yacht buyers shrug off climate concerns

  • From left; Rupert Murdoch, Mick Jagger and Lawrence Stroll.

    The great carbon divide
    The jet set: 200 celebrities’ aircraft have flown for combined total of 11 years since 2022

  • UK faces ‘gigafactory gap’ that could stifle its EV industry, say MPs

  • The great carbon divide
    Restaurants, pets and holidays: how UK’s well-off have outsize carbon footprints

  • Sámi call to protect reindeer in Sweden after 10,000 road deaths in five years

October 2023

  • row of cars being charged

    Power vacuum: road to fast charging at UK services has been ‘laboriously slow’

    Motorway services provider Moto tells of serious concern about government’s management of the problem
  • A poster for Baker Electrics

    Shock of the old
    Shock of the old: the amazing, infuriating history of the electric car – in pictures

    Believe it or not, battery-powered vehicles have been around since Victorian times – everything from private automobiles to taxis, ambulances and tricycles. We’ve got the photos to prove it
  • Night-time scene of fast-moving traffic in a blur of car lights with a bridge in the background

    £9bn Thames tunnel faces axe amid fears over Tory infrastructure plans

    Rishi Sunak failure to commit to HS2’s northern leg has raised concerns about the future of several large-scale transport projects

September 2023

  • Person on a bike next to a van

    Sunak ‘backs drivers’ with curbs on 20mph limits and bus lanes

  • An electric car plugged into a charging point

    UK electric car sales risk falling further behind after Sunak U-turn, analysts say

  • A view of a research project on organic fruit cultivation under solar panels, in Gelsdorf, Germany.

    ‘Staggering’ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief

  • A charging connector is pictured charging a vehicle at Gridserve E-charging station for all-electric cars, near Braintree, eastern England.

    ‘It’s an insult’: drivers react to Rishi Sunak’s electric car U-turn

  • UK carmakers will have to meet electric car sales targets despite Sunak U-turn

  • Oliver Dowden takes near-empty RAF plane to UN talks in New York

  • Euro visions
    All aboard! Can Luxembourg’s free public transport help save the world?

  • Calanais standing stones admission fee proposed amid rise in visitors

  • Plugging into the future: electric van production begins at Ellesmere Port

August 2023

  • Electric Car Charging Points, Uxbridge, London Borough of Hillingdon, UK - 23 Aug 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maureen McLean/Shutterstock (14065992b) An electric car charging outside a pub in Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon. More and more rapid charging points are being installed across towns in the UK Electric Car Charging Points, Uxbridge, London Borough of Hillingdon, UK - 23 Aug 2023

    There’s no need to fear switching to an electric car

    Letters: Thea Galena says she has not had any trouble travelling around the country in her Corsa-e. Plus a letter from Ian Dawson on slowing down
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