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Thursday, 25 March 2021

BBC News

• Tesla cars can be bought in BitcoinElon Musk announced his company would accept the virtual currency as payment for a new car.

The Guardian

• Labour to outline plan to spark electric car 'revolution' across UKEd Miliband says party would provide interest-free government loans for up to 1m householdsInterest-free government loans should be made available to help up to a million households buy electric cars over the next two years, the shadow business secretary, Ed Miliband, is to argue.In a speech on Thursday, Miliband will set out Labour’s plans for an “electric vehicle revolutionâ€� to promote a rapid increase in the take-up of electric cars as the UK moves towards net zero carbon. Continue reading...
• Traffic wars: who will win the battle for city streets?Radical new plans to reduce traffic and limit our dependence on cars have sparked bitter conflict. As legal challenges escalate, will Britain’s great traffic experiment be shut down before we have time to see the benefits? On an overcast Saturday afternoon in December, a convoy of 30 cars, led by a red Chevrolet pickup truck, set off from the car park of an east-London Asda with hazard lights flashing. The motorists, who formed a “festive motorcadeâ€�, wore Santa hats as they made their way slowly through the borough of Hackney before coming to a halt outside the town hall a couple of hours late...

Times Online

• Safety chiefs call for alcohol locks to tackle drink-driving [subscription]European-style “alcolocks” should routinely be fitted to cars to curb persistently high drink-driving rates in the UK, ministers have been told.

Birmingham Post

• The driverless car testing facility for Ebbw Vale with a street testing trackThales and the Welsh Government had committed £7m to the next phase of the National Digital Exploitation Centre