electric vehicles

Light bulb moment: the flaw in the petrol car ban

15 July 2023 9:00 am

This week, writing in the Daily Mail, Matt Ridley produced a devastating takedown of the government’s 2030 ban on the…

Carmageddon: the electric vehicle boondoggle

13 May 2023 9:00 am

A couple of years ago I thought seriously about buying an electric car. Not a hybrid, but the full monty.…

I’ve seen the future of motor racing, and it’s quiet

30 July 2022 9:00 am

Are petrolheads’ days numbered? I only ask because having just been introduced to the quiet, petrol-less world of Formula E,…

The hidden benefit of an electric car

23 July 2022 9:00 am

Hello, and welcome to episode one of What’s in My Frunk?, the first in an occasional Spectator series of news…

Letters: What Sturgeon has got wrong

9 July 2022 9:00 am

Sturgeon’s single issue Sir: Nicola Sturgeon needs to be careful what she wishes for. Declaring that the next general election…

How to save Oxford Street – and your high street

2 July 2022 9:00 am

Oxford Street is ‘a dinosaur district destined for extinction’, says Marks & Spencer boss Stuart Machin – whose plan to…

Buying a brand-new car is the ultimate good deed

25 June 2022 9:00 am

The Department for Transport recently ended a £1,500 subsidy towards the price of new, lower-priced electric cars one year earlier…

How we did the locomotion: A Brief History of Motion, by Tom Standage, reviewed

14 August 2021 9:00 am

Audi will make no more fuel engines after 2035. So that’s the end of the Age of Combustion, signalled by…