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Car makers’ electric vehicle plans for 2023 and beyond

Published 28 June 2023
By Sunday Times Driving
Fancy going all-electric with your next new car? Here are all of the current and upcoming pure-electric models you'll be able to buy.
Renault unveils shape-shifting Morphoz concept

Renault unveils shape-shifting Morphoz concept

Renault has revealed the Morphoz, a stretchable electric crossover that partly pre-empts a new family of EVs coming from the French compan.
Published 03 March 2020
BMW M Vision NEXT’s exterior designer, Jose Alberto Casas Peña

BMW's next supercars: we meet the designer

BMW’s Vision M Next concept broke cover at 2019’s Frankfurt Motor Show. It’s a hint as to what future BMW M products will look like.
Published 16 December 2019
Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer on creating the soundscape for BMW's future cars

Hans Zimmer on creating BMW's EV soundscape

Nestled in as studio in the suburbs of Santa Monica, Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer is making BMW's future electric cars sound . . . happy.
Published 27 November 2019

Audi's big electric and plug-in hybrid push

Audi has kept most of its expansive electric car plans under wraps. Now, though, we have a clear idea of just what the car maker has on the way.
Published 05 October 2019
Incredible 1958 Golden Sahara II future car had light-up tyres and a remote control

Golden Sahara 2 had light-up tyres, remote control

The Golden Sahara II was a shining example of 1950s future car visions, with self-driving tech and glowing tyres.
Published 06 March 2019
Top 5: Coolest futuristic cars

Five coolest futuristic cars

Fantastic, forward-thinking and more often than not massive flops, here are five of the coolest futuristic cars to ever appear on public roads.
Published 29 December 2018
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Self-driving Nissan IDS concept will learn your road...

NISSAN HAS unveiled an autonomous concept car at this week's Tokyo show that can learn your driving style and copy it when driving itself
Published 28 October 2015
Six real flying cars

Forget Back to the Future: here are six real flying...

Welcome to 2015, a year in which we pay for goods and services by thumbprint identification, video-call the office and . . . fly cars, if the Back...
Published 02 January 2015
Interview: Nissan’s Andy Palmer and Shiro Nakamura talk GT-R, Pulsar and future cars

Interview: Nissan’s Palmer and Nakamura talk GT-R...

It's an exciting time for Nissan, which is riding the crest of sales wave with the Juke and Qashqai SUVs, which has clearly given the company enough...
Published 15 August 2014