Annabelle Liang & Nick Marsh Business reporter & Transport correspondent Getty Images Almost half of all cars sold in China last year were electric “I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor,” says Lu Yunfeng, a private hire driver, who is at a charging station on the outskirts of Guangzhou in the south of...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Global Witness The Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia is sometimes referred to as the ‘Amazon of the Seas’ Stark images, captured from a drone by environmental campaigners and shared with the BBC, appear to show how nickel mining has stripped forests and polluted waters in one of the most...
Theo Leggett International Business Correspondent BBC Theo will be responding to reader comments about this article between 12pm and 1pm today. Go to the comments section at the bottom of this page to share what you think about the rise of these more affordable EVs. In China, they call it the Seagull, and it has...
Fire fighters and police were called to a house in Newton Abbot after an electric car crashed into a shed and caught fire. Officers got the call just after 15:30 BST on Sunday and arrived at the property on Cowslip Crescent to find a Blue Skoda Enyaq had broken a low brick wall and crashed...
Torridge District Council has added three electric vehicles to its fleet to replace diesel vans. Two of the vehicles will be used by its estates team for routine maintenance tasks and to help with the running of the pannier markets. The third van will be used by the Northam Burrows rangers to be used at...
BBC The electric buses are due to start operating in June The first vehicles that are part of a new fleet of electric buses will soon be rolled out onto the streets of Plymouth and parts of Cornwall. Plymouth Citybus is replacing some of its current diesel vehicles with 50 zero emission double-decker buses as...
A new fleet of electric bikes will be available to hire in Totnes next month. The ‘Catbikes’ are being introduced as part of South Hams District Council’s commitment to promoting cycling. The bikes will be available from several places across the town and accessed by a mobile app. It is hoped the bikes will provide...
    Are electric vehicles better for the planet than gasoline-powered vehicles? This is the question we explore in my new documentary “Electric Vehicles — The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.”     Whether one agrees with former President Joe Biden, who calls climate change “an existential threat,” or whether...
The University of Plymouth has said it has become the first in the UK to add a boat powered by electricity to its fleet of education and research vessels. The university said the addition was part of its latest move to help clean up our seas. It said the boat was supplied as part of...
Prison officers are to demand that staff be given electric stun guns to protect themselves while guarding the UK’s most dangerous jails when they meet the justice secretary on Wednesday. The meeting with Shabana Mahmood comes after Hashem Abedi, one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing, threw hot oil at officers and...
A new fleet of all-electric buses will be deployed in Torquay this winter, thanks to a funding boost from the Department for Transport (DfT), Torbay Council has said. A cash injection of £361,000 from the DfT means more than £7.4m is available to purchase a fleet of 55 new all electric, zero-emission vehicles, the council...
The Godfathers: Electric Déjà Vu (Godfathers Recordings) CD | DL Out 11th April 2025 PRE-ORDER HERE The Godfathers launch into celebrations of the 40th anniversary since their formation with a compilation of tracks taken from their most recent three studio albums. It’s a collection of songs which proves beyond any doubt that the band have lost...