The month I moved to Los Angeles felt apocalyptic, even by the standards of a city forever being destroyed in film. It was the end of the summer of 2020; stores were closed, streets empty, and wildfires had enveloped the region in smoke, turning the sky orange. Yet after I parked the U-Haul, things got even bleaker.
Walking to my new apartment, I passed a car where a 20-something had passed out with the engine running. Folks, I noticed,
Hundreds of exasperated drivers were stuck for as a long as three hours in a multi-storey car park gridlock nightmare in Wales.
Some furious motorists caught up in the Saturday evening chaos abandoned their cars as St David’s car park, in Cardiff, ground to a near standstill.
Tempers flared with some people shouting and swearing at the lengthy delays, one woman who was waiting two hours to leave said.
The situation saw people complaining that they had been queuing for
The vehicle part retailer LKQ Euro Car Parts has revealed the best accessories to deter thieves from breaking in and stealing cars.
According to the company, over 100,000 vehicles were stolen in England and Wales during 2022, with an increasing number of cars going missing due to modern hacking technology.
To help prevent this, LKQ Euro Car Parts advised drivers to protect their key fob, particularly if they own a car that features keyless entry.
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Six years after launching its autonomous-truck program, Waymo has said it’s decided to focus more on developing its ridesharing ambitions using its self-driving cars and minivans.
The California-based, Alphabet-owned company said its decision to effectively put autonomous trucking on the back burner is down to the “tremendous momentum and substantial commercial opportunity” that it’s seeing with the pilot ridesharing service it launched in Arizona in 2018 before taking it to several other states. Customers involved in the program can
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under pressure to push back the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles but Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove has said it is an “immovable” deadline.
Mr Sunak declined to commit to the ban on Monday but Downing Street has since insisted that it remains official policy as part of the UK’s drive to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Mr Gove confirmed this during an interview with BBC Radio 4’s
Mainstream electric car adoption faces another major stumbling block as battery vehicles are more expensive to repair, take longer to fix and are more commonly written off as a result of damage to their batteries.
And it means the cost to insure them will likely rise as more claims are made, according to a new government-funded report published today.
Comparisons with petrol and diesel cars found that electric vehicle (EV) claims are 25.5 per cent more expensive – and the
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Five years ago, when Bill Ferro would take a road trip in his electric BMW i3, he needed to be ready for anything.
Driving from Boston to Charlotte meant bringing along a 50-foot extension cord; a blanket, in case he needed to turn the car’s heater off to maximize its range; and a spreadsheet full of alternate plans in case the unexpected happened at
Tuesday saw Vladimir Putin host Russia’s annual Victory Day parade to mark 78 years since the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.
But while recent years have seen ostentatious displays with dozens of the Kremlin’s most sophisticated pieces of military hardware rolling through Moscow’s famous Red Square, this year saw a significantly slimmed-down affair.
Some 8,000 troops took part in the parade – the lowest number since 2008. Even the procession in 2020, the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, featured
Mercedes-Benz is one of the oldest automakers in existence, but it’s been among the quickest to launch a lineup of electric cars. It may not have the freshness of a startup, but what it does have are actual cars to sell to customers.
The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV is the middle child of Mercedes’ electric SUV lineup, slotting between the entry-level EQB and the flagship EQS SUV, and targeting electric luxury SUVs like the Audi E-Tron, BMW iX, and Cadillac
