Automotive industry
Ford to invest £230m in electric vehicle plant on Merseyside
Move to upgrade transmission plant at Halewood to produce parts for electric drive will maintain about 500 jobs
Jasper Jolly
18, Oct, 2021 @6:00 AM
Firm aiming to build £4bn UK ‘gigafactory’ poised for London IPO
Chair Peter Rolton says Britishvolt more likely to pick UK after proposed changes to stock market listing rules
Rob Davies
17, Oct, 2021 @2:24 PM
UK car industry says Brexit rules are denting competitiveness
SMMT also hopes for cap on energy prices as carmakers ramp up electric vehicle production
Lisa O'Carroll and Gwyn Topham
12, Oct, 2021 @12:23 PM
The advertising industry is fuelling climate disaster, and it’s getting away with it | Andrew Simms
Overconsumption is inevitable when adverts are so ubiquitous and sophisticated, says campaigner Andrew Simms
Andrew Simms
11, Oct, 2021 @12:53 PM
Fuel shortages ease; petrol prices hit eight-year high; car sales slide – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Graeme Wearden
05, Oct, 2021 @4:58 PM
UK car sales plunge but electric vehicles soar to record amid fuel crisis
Global chip shortage helps push car registrations to lowest level for more than two decades
Julia Kollewe and Gwyn Topham
05, Oct, 2021 @12:55 PM
Computer chip shortage stalls UK car industry production
A continuing global shortage of semiconductors is further hampering the sector badly hit by lockdown
Jasper Jolly
29, Sep, 2021 @11:01 PM
UK electric car inquiries soar during fuel supply crisis
Sellers of plug-in vehicles say petrol shortages are driving people to adopt the new technology
Miranda Bryant
27, Sep, 2021 @3:47 PM
Petrol station chaos worsened by motorists filling up with wrong fuel
More than five times as many people as usual in the UK put diesel in their petrol engine or vice versa
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
27, Sep, 2021 @2:03 PM
The Guardian view on low-emission zones: the UK must clean up its act | Editorial
Editorial: Schemes to cut air pollution in cities not only save lives, but show how environmental regulation can be done
Editorial
23, Sep, 2021 @5:44 PM
Watchdog to launch crackdown on ads falsely claiming green credentials
The ASA will conduct a series of inquiries into environmental advertising claims and practices
Mark Sweney
23, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
We tried to transition to green jobs, but the bosses are closing our car factory down | Frank Duffy
Though we don’t want to go on strike, we can’t stand by and watch the British car industry fall victim to offshoring, says Frank Duffy, the Unite the Union planet convener at GKN Automotive in Birmingham
Frank Duffy
20, Sep, 2021 @8:30 AM
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