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Driving the Tesla Semi: the electric lorry with 500 miles of range and Autopilot

Driving the Tesla Semi, a 500-mile electric lorry

I’m sitting in the form-fitting driver’s seat of Elon Musk’s most powerful electric vehicle, flanked by high-definition touchscreens...
Published 17 November 2017
Elon Musk claims 250mph, 620 miles per charge for new Tesla Roadster

New Tesla Roadster: 250mph, 620 miles per charge

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, delighted has delighted electric car fans and shocked the auto-industry – again – by announcing that he’s...
Published 17 November 2017
VW blames drivers failing to fit new software for dirty diesel cars

VW blames drivers failing to fit software fix

Volkswagen has blamed its customers after failing to fix almost 400,000 diesel cars fitted with software designed to cheat emissions tests.
Published 16 November 2017
The five best electric cars you’d be happy to drive: Nissan Leaf is a good all-rounder

Used car buyers charge toward electric models

They are expensive to buy, won't travel very far before running out of power and take an age to recharge - but that isn't deterring drivers from
Published 15 November 2017
Revealed: the dangerous defects found on foreign and British lorries

Revealed: the dangerous defects found on lorries

FOREIGN LORRY drivers are more likely than their British counterparts to be driving vehicles with lethal defects. One in eight foreign-registered
Published 15 November 2017
Uber and NASA to launch electric flying taxis 'by 2020'

Uber and NASA to launch electric flying taxis

UBER has done a deal with the US space agency to launch flying cars in cities around the world. The taxi hire company will work with Nasa to crea
Published 15 November 2017
Traffic to be banned from Oxford Street in fight against air pollution

Traffic ban for Oxford Street

All vehicles will be banned from Oxford Street under radical plans to tackle air pollution. The western section of the central London street, hom
Published 14 November 2017
Tiredness at wheel is like drink-driving, say researchers

Tiredness at wheel is like drink-driving

The motorway signs proclaiming that “Tiredness can kill” are based on the commonsense assumption that drivers could fall asleep at the wheel...
Published 14 November 2017
I inherited an MGA: how a classic car changed how I look at motoring (video) - Charlotte Vowden with her 1960 MGA, "Frisky"

Video: I inherited an MGA

"The country air is like champagne.” With the top down and my hair being whipped up by the wind, I thought of the words my grandfather...
Published 12 November 2017
Me and My Motor: Jason Isaacs, actor

Me and My Motor: Jason Isaacs

It's hard to watch television or go to the cinema these days without seeing Jason Isaacs. He plays Georgy Zhukov, the Soviet war hero, in The Dea
Published 10 November 2017
GT Sport cars by vehicle class

GT Sport vehicle list by category

Looking for a list of cars in GT Sport, broken down by category? We couldn't find one, so we took the official list by brand and transposed it...
Published 10 November 2017
Nigel Mansell: Lewis Hamilton did nothing wrong by allegedly avoiding tax on jet

Nigel Mansell: Hamilton did nothing wrong on tax

Former Formula One world champion Nigel Mansell has told Sunday Times Driving that Lewis Hamilton has done nothing wrong by allegedly avoiding...
Published 09 November 2017