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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is expanding the zone to cover the whole of the capital from August 29 to boost air quality, with a 12.50 daily fee for vehicles not meeting minimum standards.Transport for London (TfL) estimates that more than 200,000 drivers of non-compliant vehicles will be affected.Figures from Auto Trader which is used by around four out of five UK vehicle retailers show the average cost of petrol and diesel cars for sale in London which are not liable for the ULEZ fee is 15,000 and 19,991 respectively.

Car-obsessed actor Rowan Atkinson has said he feels duped by the electric vehicle trend, despite being an early adopter.In a comment piece in The Guardian on Saturday, the 68-year-old wrote that he got his electric hybrid 18 years ago and his first all-electric car nine years later.Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they're wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run, he wrote.

Car-obsessed actor Rowan Atkinson has said he feels duped by the electric vehicle trend, despite being an early adopter.In a comment piece in The Guardian on Saturday, the 68-year-old wrote that he got his electric hybrid 18 years ago and his first all-electric car nine years later.Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they're wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run, he wrote.

Rishi Sunak has said European car manufacturers have backed his call for the EU to delay implementing a post-Brexit tariff on car parts for electric vehicles.Stellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen, and Fiat, said the changes could force it and others to quit the UK, the prime minister said the concerns were not just in Britain.

Elon Musk on Tuesday dismissed speculation that he might step down as Tesla's CEO and told the company's annual shareholders meeting that the electric car and solar panel company would start doing some advertising."Say it ain't so," one shareholder asked Musk about stepping down as Tesla's leader.

Many of the first responders who helped fight the fire that erupted after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last month were ill-equipped and untrained to fight the massive chemical blaze that some now call the hell fire.In testimony Wednesday before the US Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, lawmakers heard about myriad issues that snarled the response and that put firefighters who rushed to the scene at greater immediate risk and may raise risks to their health throughout their lives.

If you dream of owning an electric vehicle but can't afford one, you're not alone.Zero-emission car sales in California showed an encouraging jump last year, yet most options remain unaffordable for most people.The average cost is over $47,000, with popular high-end cars like Tesla's Model 3 or the GMC Sierra truck seen in SuperBowl ads north of $100,000.

Purchasing a car can be a stressful experience, one in which everyone's speaking a different language, and that's even before you move abroad.Going through the whole process in a foreign country is even more daunting.These are some of the things you need to keep in mind when on the hunt for a car in France.

Dovetailing off an editorial ( "R.I.P., Metra's commuter rail.Long live regional rail!" Feb. 16) and an op-ed ( "How Metra could build regional rail in Chicago," March 10), I reflected on a leisure trip to San Francisco several years ago.Rather than renting a car or calling an Uber, my wife and I used Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART.

Demonstrators attend a protest at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - Mexico announced Saturday it's raising its target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting the rollout of renewable energy, though it remains a regional laggard on climate action.

By the end of 2023, only 9 percent of knowledge workers worldwide will be fully remote, but 39 percent will combine remote and office-based work, according to analysis by Gartner.The shift is more pronounced in the US, with 51 percent of knowledge workers - those outside retail, manual and semi-skilled work and direct physical services and care - getting hybrid working arrangements while 20 percent will be fully remote.

Elon Musk (center), chief executive officer at Tesla Inc. leaves court in San Francisco ... [+]
© 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter who's reportedly struggling with engagement on his social media platform, personally asked Twitter users to like a car ad for Hyundai on Friday.

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The PS5 is, among other things, big.It's one of the most gargantuan games consoles ever made, and the bulky design was mercilessly mocked when Sony revealed it back in 2020.But what's bigger than a PS5?A PS5 that's also a car, of course.The president of Sony Honda Mobility (the two brands have launched a joint electric car venture) has revealed plans to install a PS5 console into its vehicles.

Chrysler has yet to deliver an electric car or otherwise leap into the future, but it's at least willing to hint at what that future will look like.The Stellantis brand is debuting a Synthesis cockpit concept at CES that previews what you can expect in next-generation electric vehicles.Most notably, the two-seat demonstrator is built around Level 3 self-driving technology - that is, it assumes you'll have your hands off the steering wheel in limited conditions.

Cars and TransportationNorway Electric cars made up almost 80% of the cars sold last year in Norway, following a series of incentives offered by the government.US automaker Tesla sold more cars than any other brand for a second consecutive year.Norwegians bought the highest numbers of electric cars ever in 2022, data released on Monday show.

One in five cars on Norway's roads are electric ,a share that has doubled in less than three years, the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association said Monday.Published: 12 December 2022 15:48 CET One in five cars in Norway is electric.Pictured is an electric car being charged.Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash The snowball is rolling faster and faster and a growing number of good electric car models are on Norway's roads, the head of the association, Christina Bu, said on its website.

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The Japanese automaker is reportedly working on a manual transmission for electric cars.Will the stick-obsessed be willing to play make-believe?The manual transmission, once a staple of base trim economy cars and high-end sports cars alike, has been in decline for years now.But for a small and shrinking group of drivers, the answer to that is "from my cold, dead hands."

Recently, we reviewed Audi's RS e-tron GT, a handsome four-door electric vehicle that, while closely related to the Porsche Taycan, still manages to feel quite distinctive to drive.As I detailed in that article, the practice of sharing common platforms or architectures has been a fact of life in the automotive industry for decades.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.-"You want it to be one way...But it's the other way."I thought of Marlo Stanfield's words from The Wire that morning.Much as I might like, I couldn't just come to Palm Springs and drive the new BMW i7 without at least acknowledging that, for many, its time has not yet come.

In 1900, Ferdinand Porsche and Ludwig Lohner unveiled an electric car with battery-powered motors attached to its front wheels.It was seen as a sensation, but the technology never took off as petrol cars accelerated to world domination.More than a century later, in-wheel motors are making a comeback.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing  drone footage that has revealed The Line megacity is under construction in Saudi Arabia.Comments exploded underneath last week's story showing drone footage of work beginning on The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia.In the video, numerous excavators can be seen digging a wide linear trench in the desert.