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Thursday, 10 September 2020

Department for Transport

• Using behavioural insights to increase uptake of electric vehicles in the UKFeasibility study on developing a range of behaviour informed measures to accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles.

The Guardian

• Petrol and diesel cars could cost up to £1,500 more under proposalsReport suggests buyers of polluting vehicles should subsidise electric cars Up to £1,500 could be added to the cost of new petrol and diesel cars in order to subsidise electric car purchases, under proposals being considered by the government.

Times Online

• Direction of travel is not something investors relish [subscription]t was a familiar story, but no less painful for all that. Some of Britain’s biggest travel and leisure companies came under the cosh yesterday as investors fretted over lockdown restrictions. Those two sectors bore the brunt of the original lockdown earlier in the year, with many airlines, bars and restaurants deprived of income.

City AM

• Hammersmith Bridge: Government thinks TfL inflated £140m repair estimateThe government is refusing to fund repairs for the closed Hammersmith Bridge because it believes the £140m price tag has The post Hammersmith Bridge: Government thinks TfL inflated £140m repair estimate appeared first on CityAM.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• MP Imran Hussain speaks out about treatment of cabbies in Bradford BRADFORD Council has offered to meet with an MP to discuss concerns he has raised over its treatment of cabbies in the district.

The York Press

• York's new e-scooter company revealed - fleet on road in weeks A FLEET of 100 electric scooters will be installed at the University of York within weeks.

Wales Online

• We put anger at UK government on M4 relief road to Welsh SecretaryThe UK government minister said he wanted to persuade Mark Drakeford to go ahead with the M4 relief road

Other Regional Press

• £3m bid from council to redesign roadsA bid worth £3.45 million has been submitted to redesign roads in Hampshire.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Nissan achieves breakthrough in carbon fibre parts productionA material used in airplanes, rockets and sports cars may find its way into more mass-market cars thanks to a new production process developed by Nissan. The new process speeds up the development of car parts made from carbon fibre reinforced plastics, or CFRP. Lightweight yet extremely strong, the material can be used to make cars that are safer and more fuel efficient. It can also lower a car's center of gravity when applied to upper body parts, making it more agile and exciting to drive. Nissan aims to use the new process to mass-produce CFRP parts and introduce them in more cars for cust...