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Wednesday, 13 January 2021

BBC News

• Tesla moves a step closer to launching in IndiaThe electric car maker has registered a company in the country although its future plans remain unclear.

Times Online

• Coronavirus: Home workers drive rush hour to brink of extinction [subscription]The traditional rush hour is being “flattened” as growing numbers of commuters work from home. Traffic levels at the traditional peak periods in the morning and afternoon have fallen quicker than at other times of the day over the past 12 months, according to a study published today.

City AM

• European car giants count cost of dire year for auto industryEuropean car giants this morning began to lay out of the full cost of the coronavirus pandemic on their performances in 2020.

Birmingham Post

• Welsh Government Covid fund secures 63 jobs at Wrexham car seating firmIsringhausen GB Limited obtained money from the Economic Resilience Fund

Other Regional Press

• Kirklees Council to splash millions fixing borough's crumbling roads£12m fund to start work resurfacing back roads and neighbourhood streets but the backlog is a stunning £152m worth

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Ringtons tea saves 100K road miles with Port of Tyne’s green logistics servicePort of Tyne has been re-appointed as a port centric warehousing and logistics service provider by tea and coffee specialist, Ringtons.  Best known for delivering high quality tea and biscuits to doorsteps across the North East, family owned Ringtons has been using the coastal feeder service from Felixstowe to Port of Tyne to transport hundreds of containers of tea.  Ringtons then use the Port of Tyne’s warehousing services for processing tea before delivery of the goods to its Longbenton factory in Newcastle. In switching from road haulage to shipping, each of the 200 containe...

Green Miscellany

• If driverless cars seem too good to be true, perhaps they areDriverless car evangelists rarely acknowledge that the transport Elysium they foresee is possible now – and with today’s technology. After all, what the world needs is fewer cars, not fewer drivers. We’re losing count of all the benefits being promised of driverless cars. Motorists are being teased with visions of driverless cars as luxurious and relaxing private retreats clever enough… The post If driverless cars seem too good to be true, perhaps they are appeared first on ETA.