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  • Two Waymo taxis meet in San Francisco.

    Don’t forget to tip! The driverless taxi that could also get you a job – or a date

    Looking for love or a new career in San Francisco, Los Angeles or Phoenix? You just might find it in a Waymo autonomous vehicle
  • SUV drivers line up to collect children from school in rose bay, Sydney, in February 2025.

    It’s time to consign these giant SUVs to the rubbish heap of history

    Letters
  • Learner driver with instructor

    Record number of UK drivers pass test first time with zero faults, figures show

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Overhead view of electric vehicles parked within green painted lines while plugged into charging points

    Labour: changes to EV rules will have ‘negligible’ impact on UK emissions

  • An SUV dwarfs a tiny Fiat 500 on a London street.

    The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay

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News

  • Electric vehicle being charged

    Coalition may rethink rules that push car-makers to create cheaper EVs and hybrids for Australians

  • Electric cars being charged at a motorway services

    Ministers may siphon off stalled £950m fund for motorway chargers

  • A car hits a pothole on a road in Islington, London

    ‘In a rut’: cost of fixing pothole-plagued roads in England and Wales soars to £17bn

  • Tesla driving past Tesla factory

    Tesla tells US government Trump trade war could ‘harm’ EV companies

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Electric, hybrid & low-emission vehicles

  • a person holds an iPhone in an Apple store as another person stands by

    ‘It’s going to be messy’: Americans on how Trump’s tariffs are shaping their spending

  • A man behind the steering wheel of a Tesla Model S electric car at the Beijing international automotive exhibition in 2016

    Tesla stops taking orders in China for two models imported from US

  • man wearing navy suit and red tie speaks behind microphone as people sit behind him

    Two visions within Trump world are battling for primacy. Which will win?

    Ben Davis
  • Trump signs

    Trump signs orders to allow coal-fired power plants to remain open

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Self-driving cars

  • 3D illustration of a self driving car

    UK Ministry of Defence enlists sci-fi writers to prepare for dystopian futures

  • Mike Johns’ self-driving taxi started circling a parking lot on his way to Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix.
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    'I feel like I'm in the movies': malfunctioning robotaxi traps passenger in car – video

  • A white car fitted with sensors charging at a charging station

    LA tech entrepreneur nearly misses flight after getting trapped in robotaxi

  • Autonomous taxi on street

    Will the future of transportation be robotaxis – or your own self-driving car?

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