Yesterday morning, at one o’clock UTC, the clocks went back across the European Union, the UK, Norway and Switzerland. Summer time, which started on 29 March, is over. The numbers are less abstract than they sound. In London the sun…
If you were waiting for one clean piece of news about assisted driving in Europe this month, you did not get it. The committee that handles these approvals met in October with a vote on the agenda. The vote did…
Something quietly significant happened in Croatian camping this week, and it was announced in a hotel conference room in Terme Tuhelj rather than on a beach. PiNCAMP – the camping platform owned by ADAC, Germany’s largest automobile club – says…
Two Tesla stories reached Europe this week. One of them was everywhere. The other one was buried under it, and it is the one that affects whether you sleep in this car in five years’ time. The loud story: on…
Autumn in the Alps has been mild and sunny for most of October. That is about to end. Forecasters are pointing at 23 to 25 October 2026 for the first proper snow of the season, with 10 to 35cm possible…
Tesla published its third-quarter numbers after the US market closed last night, so Europe got them with this morning’s coffee. If you read one headline it will be the profit number, and it is ugly: net income down 43% year…
The Caravan and Motorhome Club said something quietly useful this week: 50 of its UK Club and Affiliated campsites stay open all year. Not “open until October”, not “open weekends” – open, through the coldest, wettest, darkest part of the…
Tesla publishes its third-quarter numbers after the US market closes tonight – late evening in Europe, so most of us will read them with coffee tomorrow morning. There will be a great deal of noise about margins, capital spending and…
Something slightly unfamiliar has happened to Tesla in the last couple of weeks: it has run out of cars. Not permanently, and not everywhere, but enough that delivery dates on the configurator have started sliding into next year – and…
Tesla has confirmed to Brandenburg’s public broadcaster that it is preparing a permit application for a second production hall at its Grünheide factory outside Berlin – a building around two and a half times the size of the one that…
