There is a number in France’s latest used-electric-car barometer that tells you more about camping than about cars. A used electric family SUV in France now sells in 83 days. A year ago it took 137. A used petrol or…
Slovakia’s transport ministry confirmed on 16 October that it has officially recognised the approval Tesla’s driver-assistance system already holds in the Netherlands. That makes Slovakia the ninth EU country to allow it on public roads, and it quietly completes something…
Here is a small, very European piece of good news for anyone who camps in autumn: towns in the German state of Hesse have worked out that motorhome and camper tourists are the best kind of tourist, and they are…
After roughly nine years of delays, Tesla finally showed the second-generation Roadster overnight. The event was held outside Waco, Texas, next to a SpaceX rocket test facility, and it was not a normal car launch. The car drove up an…
Tonight, Tesla finally shows the second-generation Roadster. It has been roughly nine years since the prototype was wheeled out in 2017, the car has been delayed at least eight times, and a lot of people who put down deposits in…
Here is a number that would have sounded ridiculous three years ago. In September 2026, 44 out of every 100 new cars registered across Europe’s nine biggest markets were electrified. Not “plug-in curious”. Forty-four per cent. That is an all-time…
Here is a number worth sitting with: between January and June this year, campsites in the European Union recorded 135,750,659 overnight stays. That is an all-time record, and it is 72% more than ten years ago. Eurostat’s figures went largely…
Germany restarted its electric car purchase grant this year, and the numbers from the scheme just landed. If you were guessing which car ordinary German households are using it to buy, you probably wouldn’t guess the answer – and if…
Tesla said something on 12 October that is easy to skim past and hard to overstate: in September, the Model Y was the best-selling passenger car in all five Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Not the…
Some news from Germany that would have been unthinkable five years ago: in September, the Tesla Model Y was the best-selling car in the country. Not the best-selling electric car. The best-selling car, full stop. According to the Federal Motor…
