Car industry enters ‘golden age of innovation’
The global car industry is entering a global age of innovation according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), making leaps and bounds in four key technology areas; powertrain, lightweight material...
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Running a rural car club: four years on
Talybont-on-Usk is a small, sleepy village of under 300 households, located in the Brecon Beacons National Park. For the past four years this village has had its very own car sharing club, run by t...
UK study to consider autonomous road trains
The UK government is to explore vehicle platooning (or road trains as they are also known), as a step towards more autonomous driving. The Department for Transport (DfT) has commissioned Ricardo Pl...
Report: More people taking green journeys
More and more people across the UK are ditching their cars and relying on "green journeys" to take them to and from public transport hubs: according to a new report. The Department for Transport h...
Europe’s ‘Year of Air’: More needs to be done
As 2013 draws to a close, so does Europe’s Year of Air, in which the European Union aimed to address issues of air quality across the continent and make positive steps to improve it for the future....
EU reveals new plans to tackle air pollution
The European Commission has unveiled a new package of measures designed to improve air quality by 20 per cent from compared to current levels by 2030. It is estimated that the measures will help ...
IER to take over Source London electric car charging network
French firm IER has been selected to take over the management of the Source London electric car charging network and membership scheme. A subsidiary of the Bollore Group— which runs the Autolib e...
UK seeks to make more of advanced fuels in transport
The UK Government has issued a call for evidence on advanced fuels, seeking the views of industry experts, environmental groups and other interested parties on how the UK can use new fuels to help ...
China’s bizarre backing for air pollution
The fight to make our environment greener and our air cleaner to breathe seems like a cause we can all get behind even if there are disagreements about how this should be achieved. However, now two...
World traffic volumes could be 2 to 4 times higher by 2050
Global transport could double or even quadruple by 2050 according to a new study from the International Transport Forum (ITF), an intergovernmental organisation with 54 member states associated wit...
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