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Monday, 18 January 2021

Financial Times

• Renault boss sees electric supremacy on road back from hellLuca de Meo claims technological edge over VW as he charts turnround after Carlos Ghosn

The Telegraph

• Electric car owners ‘could struggle to find public charging points’ [subscription]126 councils have no plans to install any new electric car chargers by 2025

City AM

• Uber offers money off trips to mass-vaccination centresUber will cover up to £15 worth of passengers’ trips to seven mass-vaccination centres in England, including to the Nightingale The post Uber offers money off trips to mass-vaccination centres appeared first on CityAM.

Mail Online

• Vauxhall could face paying out £2,500 to a MILLION motorists over emissions test 'cheating' claimsVauxhall motorists could receive thousands of pounds in compensation after the firm was accused of cheating emissions tests. Follows 'dieselgate' claims against Volkswagen and Mercedes.

Bolton News

• Motorists to be slapped with £150 fine under plans to introduce tough new powers to crackdown on littering and flytippingA CRACKDOWN on litter being thrown from cars could see motorists fined £150 as part of a tough new raft of measures being put forward to Keep Bolton Tidy

Green Miscellany

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger – we need smaller, lighter cars nowWhen the German-British statistician and economist Ernst Schumacher  said "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction“, he was making the case for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.

Other News Sources

• Car-free Brighton is not such a great ideaI READ with great interest a letter in last Friday's Argus Letters from Sean Hennessy. He writes about a suggestion from the city council about banning vehicles from the city centre.