Tom Jervis

6 days ago | autoexpress.co.uk | Tom Jervis

For years it’s been common knowledge that, to drive your car in Europe, you need to display a ‘UK’ (previously ‘GB’) sticker on the back of your car so authorities can easily identify you as a foreign driver. Now, drivers travelling to France need to contend with another sticker which, rather than marking you out as an international visitor, has the purpose of identifying your vehicle’s emissions levels.

6 days ago | autoexpress.co.uk | Tom Jervis

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1 week ago | autoexpress.co.uk | Tom Jervis

A trade agreement between the UK and US has been struck, reducing tariffs for exports of British-made cars to America, but there’s a catch – there’s a limit to the number of cars that can be exported before the original tariff is reimposed, stifling the growth of UK carmakers. In February, President Donald Trump announced sweeping 25 per cent tariffs on foreign-made cars being imported into the US.

1 week ago | autoexpress.co.uk | Tom Jervis

No, the headline isn’t clickbait; the new Mercedes CLA could indeed be incompatible with the majority of UK public electric car chargers, as the firm has scrimped on incorporating a 400-volt DC converter. Without this feature, the new CLA that was revealed back in March will be unable to use many of the 14,000 rapid public chargepoints around the country. The new CLA will be available in both hybrid and fully-electric forms, with the latter sitting on bespoke 800-volt EV underpinnings.

1 week ago | autoexpress.co.uk | Tom Jervis

Car registrations in the UK have fallen yet again for the sixth time in seven months, with EV sales still far away from the lofty targets still required by the ZEV Mandate following the conclusion of its review last month. Just over 120,000 new cars hit the road across the UK in April which, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), is 10.4 per cent fewer than in the same period last year.