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Can you face ditching fossil fuels? Take our quiz to see how you feel about electric vehicles (EVs) Find out more about going electric and choose the right car for you: visit Auto Trader , the UK’s largest automotive marketplace Continue reading...

Reports say tech giant made announcement during meeting and forecast layoffs, ending secretive and resource-heavy project Apple is canceling its plans to build an electric car, according to multiple outlets , ending a secretive project that has consumed immense resources over the past decade. Executives from the company made the unexpected announcement during an internal team meeting on Tuesday, forecasting layoffs and telling employees that many of them would shift to working on generative artificial intelligence, per reports. Apple is believed to have spent billions of dollars attempting to develop an electric, semi-autonomous vehicle under the codename Project Titan, and its decision to kill the program is a major retreat from its previous strategy. Continue reading...

Rail Delivery Group said it hopes analysis will allow businesses to make greener travel choices Travelling by train on Britain’s busiest business routes generates less than half the carbon emissions of a battery electric car, according to detailed analysis from the rail industry. Certain journeys on the greenest, fullest electric trains produce as little as one-fifteenth of the CO2 per person compared with the footprint of a sole occupancy petrol or diesel car, the data shows. Continue reading...

Electric cars might seem like a no-brainer on a warming planet, but there are plenty of people who remain sceptical about everything from their battery life to their carbon impact and the environmental and human rights costs of their parts. Madeleine Finlay consults Auke Hoekstra, known as the internet’s ‘EV debunker in chief’, to unpick the myths, realities and grey areas surrounding electric cars Clips: Joe Rogan, Global Radio Read Jasper Jolly’s EV mythbusters series here Continue reading...

In part seven of our series exploring myths surrounding EVs, we look at claims friction on brakes and tyres will affect air quality Are EVs too costly to tempt drivers? Is it right to have range anxiety? Toxic smog has been a part of big city life since the Industrial Revolution: a pea-soup blanket of harmful particulates that can be so thick that seeing and breathing is difficult. Yet in many cities in the rich world that dirty pall has been banished as car engines have got cleaner and factories have moved away. (Poorer cities are not yet so lucky .) Some people believe that the shift to electric cars could reverse some of that progress: that heavier cars and the particulates they produce by friction mean we could sacrifice cleaner air on the altar of zero carbon emissions. Continue reading...

Experts ​alerted motor trade to security risks of ‘smart key’ systems which have now fuelled highest level of car thefts for a decade • Gone in 20 seconds: how ‘smart keys’ have fuelled a new wave of car crime The car industry ignored warnings more than a decade ago that keyless technology on modern vehicles risked a surge in vehicle thefts, an investigation by the Observer can reveal. Legal and computer researchers claimed keyless entry and vehicle software would be “subverted” because of inadequate security. Continue reading...

One London resident watched on CCTV as a thief walked up to his £40,000 car and drove away. Now manufacturers say they are being drawn in to a hi-tech ‘arms race’ with criminals • Read more: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago When Steve Jessop’s electric Hyundai car was stolen outside his west London house on a rainy day earlier this month, he appealed to neighbours for potential footage of the crime. He quickly secured a CCTV video and was stunned at the ease with which his car had been taken. A hooded figure approached it, opened the doors without forced entry, started the engine and drove off. Continue reading...