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Kia Europe boss Emilio Herrera also calls for government support to boost sales

Many drivers are only using their cars for short trips during lockdown, meaning a spike in demand for replacement car batteries

Urban Electric’s pop-up charging hubs give electric car drivers without a driveway the ability to easily charge their cars at home

Proposals from Ministry of Justice were set to save drivers £35 a year, but have been postponed due to COVID-19

New data shows that electric cars in Europe generate three times less CO2 on average than their internal combustion counterparts

There are now more than 40 million vehicles registered for use in the UK, including over 35 million cars

Experts suggest the Duke of Edinburgh’s car accident last year may have contributed to a spike in over-90s voluntarily giving up driving

The UK’s High Court has ruled that VW installed devices to cheat emissions tests in thousands of its cars

Combination of tight CO2 targets and closed dealerships see car makers ask EC “for a delay in the application of certain rules”

Government to spend £90 million on three new future transport zones, where innovations such as drones and e-scooters will be tested.

People and businesses installing EV chargers will be able to claim grants for another year, but at reduced rates

Treasury plots retrospective VED hikes as Government wants to link annual road tax system for cars registered since April 2017 to CO2 emissions

Over 3.6 million new cars were registered between 2009 and 2019, contributing to congestion, poor road conditions and air quality

The UK economy lost £6.9bn because of congestion in 2019, with drivers in London spending an average of 149 hours stuck in traffic

Nissan’s investment in its Sunderland factory includes a £52m extra-large press line in preparation for new Qashqai production

Newcastle is the worst city in the UK for unfair parking tickets, with 66 per cent of appeals proving successful

More than 600 supermarkets in the UK now offer electric vehicle charging facilities, with a total of 1,115 chargers between them

Ministers warn incentives must offer “value for money for the taxpayer”, and “we think there’s a better way of doing it”

Twice as many drivers are planning on an electric car next, although most people want a minimum range of 368 miles first

A perfect storm of issues sees UK vehicle and engine manufacturing a experience “gravely concerning” decline

More than 1.2 million enforcement actions were issued for untaxed vehicles in 2019

Smoking in the car with children was banned in 2015; research shows this has led to a 4.1% decrease in children exposed to cigarette smoke

Concerns after a high proportion of parents and grandparents say they don’t always use child seats for youngsters

After arriving in Lebanon following his escape from Japan, Carlos Ghosn speaks publicly for the first time

‘Intrusive’ black box technology criticised as insurers force policyholders to defend anomalies in the telematics data from their cars

Euro NCAP claims that testing has improved survival rates, but critics highlight system’s flaws

Growing number of red route parking restrictions have led to a 14-fold increase in penalties

An average of 91.6 per cent of council vehicles use diesel, with London still running 724 non-ULEZ-compliant diesel vehicles

Partially submerged pods can extract dangerous pollutants at the roadside and feed out 99 per cent clean air

Sales of both vehicle types have grown, but 1.8 million SUVs were sold over the last four years compared with 47,000 EVs

There were 117 per cent more premium car thefts between January and October 2019 than in the same period of 2015

December drink-driving offences grew 16 per cent from 2017 to 2018, while 36 per cent of drivers are confused about the drink-drive limit

Councils in England made a surplus of £930 million from parking operations in 2018-19, up seven per cent on the previous financial year

Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council is the only local authority without any council-owned public EV chargers whatsoever

Seven in 10 motorists think drivers who leave their engines idling while parked should be fined