The rental and mobility company SIXT has signed an agreement with BYD, the world's leading manufacturer of new energy vehicles (NEVs), to acquire 100,000 vehicles for the European market over the next few years. This agreement will allow Sixt to promote electric mobility.

This marks the beginning of an important long-term partnership, driving a shared vision to help accelerate the adoption of sustainable mobility, with an initial order from SIXT for several thousand electric vehicles from BYD. This preliminary order is expected to be supplemented by SIXT with another 100,000 BYD electric vehicles over the next six years. 

City motorists who would like information about local roadworks can find details on a dedicated website. Information about works carried out by utility companies, transport organisations and emergency services as well as the council can be found at https://one.network

Motorists can use the website to find out more information about how to best to plan their journey when works are underway. The site includes details such as location, dates of works, the organisation responsible and information about any diversions and traffic management.

The Big Event, hosted by the Motability Scheme, saw its biggest ever attendance with a record-breaking turnout of more than 11,600 visitors attending the two-day event at The NEC in Birmingham. 

The Big Event took place on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 May 2023 and offered the chance for disabled people and their families, friends and carers to find out everything they need to know about the Motability Scheme. With over 150 vehicles on display, visitors could explore the latest range of cars, take a test drive and have their questions answered by Scheme experts.

A century ago, a Bentley 3 Litre would become the first British car and the first Bentley to compete at the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours race in its debut year. Today, as this iconic race – a 24-hour full- throttle test of man and machine – celebrates its centenary, that very first Bentley has been sold to a British enthusiast for in excess of £3m.

Formula 1 legends Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard teamed up with the reigning WRC Driver’s Champion Kalle Rovanperä in the first episode of Unibet's brand new video series RIDE. Former F1 drivers got the opportunity to experience the thrill of speed in a WRC rally car when they sat on the co-driver seat of Rovanperä while he was testing for this weekend’s Rally Sardegna.

Unibet's new video series RIDE brings together three of motorsport's major names – Mika Häkkinen, David Coulthard and Kalle Rovanperä – for the first time ever.

In the past, it was considered unprofitable to electrify heavy goods vehicles that transport cargo over long distances. But now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have shown that it can be cheaper to run heavy goods vehicles on electricity than on diesel.

“I myself am surprised by the results and hope that more haulage companies and heavy goods vehicle manufacturers will be willing to invest in electrification now that we have shown that it can be cost-effective,” says Johannes Karlsson, Doctoral student in Automatic Control Engineering at Chalmers. The transition from a fossil-fuelled to an electric vehicle fleet has so far been most visible in lighter vehicles, such as private cars and delivery vans.