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Pay-as-you-go parking card will charge drivers for car's emissions

08.09.09

An Oyster card-style parking scheme is to hit the drivers of gas guzzlers in west London... more

Troubled Toyota is to slash car production

26.08.09

Carmaker Toyota said it will slash global production to match lower sales as recession rumbles on ... more

Sadie Jones - My London

14.08.09

Sadie Jones on nuns, ponies and Westfield... more

Land Rover and Jaguar get low reliability ranking

24.07.09

Popular Land Rover and Jaguar models are among the least reliable vehicles in a survey of more than 84,000 cars featured in Which? Car magazine... more

Toyota ‘is set to build hybrid cars in Britain’

14.07.09

Toyota is to build a major hybrid car in the UK for the first time, possibly creating thousands of new jobs, reports claimed ... more

Give up your car to rent an electric one for Ł4 an hour

07.07.09

Thousands of Londoners were today urged to give up their cars in an attempt to make the capital more environmentally friendly... more

Nissan drive to build green cars in Europe

23.06.09

Nissan Motor, whose British home is in Sunderland, is looking at where to construct a new plant in Europe to produce its planned electric cars... more

Boris launches electric car hire scheme

15.06.09

Britain's first electric car hire scheme has been launched in London with a scheme which will allow members to rent an adapted Toyota Prius from Ł5.95 an hour... more

Car giants gear up for green motoring

19.05.09

The green automotive sector took big steps forward around the world, highlighting the seismic shift in emphasis by carmakers away from gas guzzlers ... more

Toyota shocks with first loss

08.05.09

Toyota stunned the world’s stricken car industry by reporting its first-ever annual loss and predicting worse to come in the year ahead... more

Met set on more electric cars for London’s roads

23.04.09

Half of London's police cars could be powered by alternative fuels within four years, Scotland Yard announced... more

Pull over, please, we need to talk

21.04.09

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Another mess, another report from Turner the intellectual troubleshooter

18.03.09

Profile: Today’s powerful dissection of the financial crisis by the boss of the FSA is par for the course for a man Government turns to in times of need... more

Bankers might be rubbish when it comes to saying the "s" word but it's good to know they are feeling some guilt, even if only about the car they are driving. The City's finest are either selling or mothballing their Ferraris and Porches for something a lot smaller. ... more

Baby P: failings that must be fixed

02.12.08

The case of Baby P turns out to have a significance far beyond the individual tragedy of the child’s violent death at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and her lodger, and raises troubling questions about the quality of child protection in this country... more

Boris: Design an electric family car and I'll buy it

02.12.08

Boris Johnson said he would be among the first customers of a zero-emission electric family car when the motor industry puts it on the market... more

Plug-in Prius to be tested in London

10.09.08

A new generation "plug-in" Toyota Prius was unveiled by the car firm and energy giant EDF... more

Lembit Opik to lead charge of the Segway brigade

08.09.08

MPS and peers will deliberately set out to break the law tomorrow when they stage a silent, low-speed charge on the Houses of Parliament... more

Overseas carmakers motor ahead in US

04.09.08

Engineering: In another grim milestone for the US automotive industry, Japanese carmaker Honda has overhauled Chrysler to grab fourth place in the sales league tables... more

Rush for second-hand Priuses

29.07.08

London drivers who have invested in environmentally friendly vehicles are being encouraged to cash in on a wave of demand for "green" second-hand cars... more

Race to see which clean vehicles deliver

29.07.08

Horseguards Parade will be transformed into the start and finish line for a unique green car race this week... more

Time is nearing to drive down to electric avenue

24.07.08

You won't be seeing many Lightnings on the streets, yet there is a growing sense that the time may have come for electric cars... more

Ford rolls downhill to the tune of Ł4.3 billion

24.07.08

Carmaker Ford has posted the kind of losses usually reserved these days for banks... more

Sales target cut rocks Toyota

16.07.08

Shares in Toyota fell to their lowest in almost three years today on reports that it will cut its sales target for the year... more

A Wall Street veteran's guide to surviving the recession

14.07.08

The first thing you need to know about recessions is that they don't signal the end of anything on Wall Street... more

Toyota to build Prius in the US

11.07.08

Toyota, caught by surprise by the runaway popularity of its hybrid petrol-electric, will begin building them in the US after stocks have sold out... more

We drive electric ... now give us places to charge up

10.07.08

London needs a dramatic expansion in the number of charging points for electric vehicles, green campaigners say... more

MPs want to let two-wheelers take to the road

22.04.08

George Bush famously fell off when he tried one - and now the Segway personal transporter could be heading for a road near you... more

Flirty Kate Hudson reignites romance with troubled ex Owen Wilson

28.02.08

Actors Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson are dating again, seven months after he tried to commit suicide. The Wedding Crashers star was said to be upset over his split from Hudson, 28, when he slashed his wrists and took a combination of pills and had to be rushed to hospital.... more