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E-Car club broadens reach

E-Car club has expanded its pay-as-you-go network in East London with sites in Coborn Road, Bow, and Chrisp Street, Poplar. E-Car is an entirely electric pay-per-use club. Members can join […]

Musk: Driving will become a ‘hobby’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says technology enabling drivers to summon their car from hundreds of miles away is only ‘a couple of years’ away. He claims that Tesla cars will […]

Auto industry salaries upwardly mobile

The UK automotive sector was one of the top five industries for salary growth last year. It recorded a 3.9 per cent growth in salaries compared to 2014 figures, according to […]

Ribbon cut on Birmingham offices

Covéa Insurance has opened a 3,000 sqft regional office in Birmingham, after it incorporated Sterling Insurance last month. The new offices house13 underwriters serving Commercial Combined, Motor Trade Combined, Motor […]

What Car? Introduces tech award

What Car?, in association with Stuff, will honour the most technologically advanced new cars at the forthcoming annual What Car? Car of the Year Awards ceremony. The new Technology Award […]

Chevrolet’s Bolt out the blue

A mainstream electric car with a 200-mile range could be released by the end of the year. The Chevrolet Bolt was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week which […]

V-Charge wins connected car award

The ‘V-Charge’ research project has won the Auto Bild / Computer Bild 2015 Connected Car Award. ‘V-Charge’ stands for Valet Charge and is pointing the way to the intelligent future […]

Hybrid market on the up

Demand for zero and low emission vehicles is outperforming the wider market, new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has revealed. While the auto market as […]

IBIS conference

Google heads to IBIS

Richard Offermann, industry leader automotive at Google, and Tanja Hufschmidt, analytical lead at Google Automotive, will deliver the keynote presentation at the IBIS Global Summit 2016, on 23-25 May at […]

JLR sales hit record high

Jaguar Land Rover has achieved its best ever full year global sales performance in 2015, retailing 487,065 vehicles, up five per cent on 2014. Last year sees the company’s sixth […]

Mercedes-Benz posts another record year

Mercedes-Benz delivered more cars to customers in 2015 than ever before in one year. A total of 1,871,511 vehicles (+13.4%) were sold, posting its fifth record year in a row. […]

Autonomous vehicles cause concern

The majority of UK motorists (three in five) currently worry about the safety of a fully autonomous vehicle, new research has revealed. Motorists are also concerned that technology failing would […]