The £35m car park: In a picture symbolising the economic crisis gripping Britain, an old RAF airbase is packed with new cars that nobody wants By Ryan Fahey For Mailonline Published: 22:10 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 5 May 2020 The brutal impact of the pandemic on the economy was laid bare … Read more
The UK’s most registered car in April was in fact a van. Mercedes-Benz sold 814 versions of its Sprinter commercial vehicle last month, outperforming every passenger car on the market. The Tesla Model 3 was the UK’s top-selling new car with 658 registrations, but Elon Musk’s victory came in exceptional circumstances with the market down … Read more
China’s anti-coronavirus cars: Buttons and consoles with anti-viral coating and powerful air filters with UV light to sterilize the air are among new features being developed by automakers to protect motorists Chinese auto company Geely has announced its new ‘Healthy Car Project’ The company will offer new filtration systems to screen out viruses and bacteria … Read more
It pays to be famous! The Bachelorette’s Angie Kent and Carlin Sterritt are gifted free cars worth $90,000 after signing another endorsement deal By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:36 BST, 26 April 2020 | Updated: 04:11 BST, 26 April 2020 They’ve used their public platform to promote everything from laser hair removal … Read more
A new porous metal material with a similar structure to bath sponge could be the key to storing more hydrogen gas in cars, scientists say. US researchers have created the aluminium-based sponge-like material for use in hydrogen fuel cells., Just one gram of the material has billions of holes, giving it a surface area of a … Read more
One of the fiercest debates around electric cars is how green they are when you take into account the production of batteries and the energy to power them. One report has found that electric models in Europe emit, on average, almost three times less CO2 than equivalent petrol and diesel cars, according to the figures … Read more
When you buy a new car, you don’t expect it to go wrong – not for a few years, anyway. However, that’s not always the case. And while almost all repairs will be covered under warranty, there’s still the headache of having to take your pricey new motor back to the dealership and being without … Read more
Mesmerising photographs show once-gleaming vehicles abandoned and transformed by nature into eerie artifacts in strange and isolated parts of Europe and America German photographer Dieter Klein roamed dusty barns, deserted fields and thick forest to snap eerie images They appear in his brand new book, out in May, called Lost Wheels – The Nostalgic Beauty … Read more
Ford files patent for a system that lets users choose their Uber or Lyft cars based on SMELL before accepting a ride Ford filed a patent to let users choose an Uber or Lyft based on the car’s smell Users mark certain smells in their account that they consider unacceptable A computer checks the list … Read more
Volvo has become to first car maker to start fitting all of its new models with speed limiters, This is Money can reveal – two years ahead of the market-wide requirement for the safety systems. The Swedish auto brand announced in March 2019 that it would be fitting limiters to all new models in 2020 … Read more