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The road to carbon zero for the motoring industry may only be a decade away, but some manufacturers are taking steps now that will mean their practices are greener even earlier.

Boris Johnson’s vision for the road to zero emissions was unveiled with plenty of headlines last week, but what do electric cars and plug-in hybrids really mean for the environment?

It was on this day in 1954 that the 50 millionth car produced by General Motors rolled off Chevrolet’s assembly line in Flint, Michigan amid a day of national celebration. 

The Department for Transport has revealed that it will be spending millions of pounds on a 93-strong fleet of gritters, which will pump out tonnes of CO2 - flying in the face of the government’s own push to outlaw petrol and diesel engines.

It was on this day in 1992 that Ford unveiled its much-hyped new ‘world car’, the Ford Mondeo (badged the ‘Contour' in the US) to the media ahead of its sales launch the following spring.

From Cornwall to Kensington, the UK is absolutely riddled with holes in the road, but there are some parts of the country which are worse than others, and some councils who appear to be on top of the problem.

It was on this day in 1995 that the much-maligned Citroen Saxo was officially unveiled to the media ahead of its impending launch.

A new survey by Volvo UK has discovered that many parents are putting their children in danger by placing them in incorrect child car seats.

It was on this day in 1975 that Les McKeown, lead singer of the Bay City Rollers - then the world’s biggest boy band - was found not guilty of causing death by dangerous driving in a high-profile court case.

The language of the garage might as well be foreign to drivers who take their car in for a repair says a new report from the RAC, which reveals that customers are very often left struggling to understand what the actual problem with their car is.