Electric Car Demand Plunges Across Europe
Electric car sales plummeted by 11.3% across Europe last month, rising to 29% in Germany, as demand dried up despite the EU's push to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by the middle of the next decade.
Electric car sales plummeted by 11.3% across Europe last month, rising to 29% in Germany, as demand dried up despite the EU's push to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by the middle of the next decade.
Sales of Volkswagen electric cars have plunged by almost a quarter in Europe as demand for battery-powered vehicles stalls and buyers return to petrol.
Watch as an e-bike explodes at a London train station as four people narrowly escape injury. It comes after an e-bike caught fire outside Buckingham Palace and another exploded in a block of flats in Roehampton.
Electric car demand has slowed sharply in a sign that drivers are turning back to petrol. The raw material demand to produce EV batteries is "unsustainable", the head of Vauxhall and Peugeot has said.
The NHS is to introduce electric ambulances, raising concerns that its drive for Net Zero is being put above patient safety owing to the limited range and long charging times.
Electric vehicles may release more pollution than petrol-powered vehicles, according to a report that has recently resurfaced.
Nissan has told owners of pre-2016 EV car models that their vehicles will lose remote functionality when the 2G network is switched off on August 1st. A sign of things to come?
The 60mph speed restrictions on the M1 and M6 will be removed after National Highways admitted air pollution had risen in places and it didn't know whether the restrictions had helped.
Aston Martin's Chairman has admitted that drivers don't want electric cars as the company delays the launch of its first electric car until at least 2026.
The town of Viviez in Aveyron in France has just seen a lithium battery storage and recycling installation erupt in flames, igniting more fears about the dangers of these batteries.
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