Saboteurs opposed to "automobile capitalism" fail to storm the German Tesla factory before claiming credit for stopping production on a scheduled holiday when nobody was at work in the first place.
Tesla's gigafactory in Germany is shut down as hundreds of anti-capitalism protesters violently clash with police and attempt to storm the gates of the facility.
Demand for electric cars has dried up and it’s time for a rethink, says billionaire founder of chemicals giant INEOS, Sir Jim Ratcliffe. "The notion of a quick transition away from petrol was always barmy."
Safety concerns around electric vehicles continue to mount as a ferry company bans them and observers warn of a sharp rise in explosions of the highly flammable lithium batteries.
Many EVs will lose up to 12% of their charge capacity by six years and some may lose even more, research has found, leading one expert to warn customers to be wary of buying a used electric car beyond eight years.
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.
