Robert Lea

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Robert Lea

Elon Musk’s Tesla sold just over 500 vehicles in Britain in April, down by more than half on the previous month, as motorists shifted decisively away from all-electric vehicles in favour of plug-in hybrids. According to the latest registration figures, the big government push to get drivers into all-electric cars appears to have stalled seemingly in favour of the plug-in hybrids, internal combustion engine vehicles which can run for a few dozen miles on a rechargeable electric battery.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Robert Lea

New car sales slumped by more than 10 per cent in April, reversing the significant gains made in the number plate change month of March. The trade blamed that on buyers getting in ahead of tax changes, which came in at the start of April, with all levels of vehicle excise duty rising and the introduction of the expensive car supplement hitting all cars with a price tag above £40,000.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Robert Lea

Cut-price rail travel from London to the Continent, with many more routes and destinations, could get stuck in the sidings in a wrangle over where new trains can be parked and serviced. Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Trains, the Italian state railway Trenitalia, and Gemini, a disruptor start-up, all want to launch new services on HS1, the high-speed line also known as the Channel tunnel rail link, to compete with the French-controlled incumbent Eurostar.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Robert Lea

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Robert Lea

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) An image of the Extended Groth Strip as seen by the JWST (inset). | Credit: Frank Summers (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back in time over 10 billion years, observing an early era in cosmic history.