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US owners say they’ve been on the receiving end of road rage, but it may be more about EVs than the CEO himself Tesla lost at least one customer this weekend, after Alyssa Milano tweeted that she had returned her model for a Volkswagen electric vehicle, prompting jokes from Elon Musk and conservative commentators about the German manufacturer’s Nazi origin story. Milano said she had ditched Tesla due to Musk’s ownership of Twitter. While Tesla owners do not seem to be following the actor’s move en masse, some note that they have been on the receiving end of road rage directed toward their vehicle choice. Continue reading...

Model 3 and Model Y light issue can be fixed with software update but leads to EV manufacturer’s third recall in Australia this month Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast More than 15,000 Tesla electric vehicles are being recalled in Australia over faulty rear lights that authorities warned “could increase the risk of an accident causing serious injury or death”. The recall, issued late on Thursday , affects 15,914 Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in Australia sold in 2022. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

Early Top Gear presenter and one of the few women motoring journalists of her time The motoring journalist Sue Baker, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 75, was perhaps best known for her work as a presenter on the long-running BBC show Top Gear. She appeared in more than 100 episodes of the programme from 1980 to 1991. In those days, the programme was based at the then BBC studios in Pebble Mill, Birmingham, and was one of the most popular on the BBC. It was very much an information programme, rather than the entertainment show into which it later developed, and road-testing of “ordinary” cars formed an important part of each episode. Continue reading...

Greens and independent David Pocock will back bill to cut taxes on electric vehicles for fleet buyers Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Electric cars are set to become cheaper and government fleets will go green after members of the crossbench struck a deal to pass a Labor bill and phase out public support for petrol-based plug-in vehicles. Both the Greens and independent David Pocock are hailing a win in the Senate, as they agreed to support the government’s push to make EVs cheaper and more available through secondhand markets. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

In part three of our series on the UK’s battery ambitions, we look at its attempts to encourage ‘gigafactories’ Human beings and batteries are a bad mix: water and dust can cause disastrous short circuits in the cells that power electric cars, risking blazing fires. So the few people allowed into the vast clean rooms at Envision AESC’s factory in Sunderland must don a full body suit and go through an air shower first. Even the Guardian’s notebook is switched for paper that does not shed fibres. Once inside, robots rule the lines. They cut rolls of electrode materials to size, layer them on top of each other and weld them to an accuracy not possible with human hands, before they are injected with electrolyte that will enable lithium ions to move one way and electrons another, powering motors of the Nissan cars made next door. Continue reading...