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Electric No, it's not a typo, and yes, it is unfathomably fast 15 minutes 24 seconds Nope, the spelling isn’t wrong, Ariel is merely using the word differently, a contraction of ‘High Performance Carbon Reduction’. So ‘Hipercar’. Carbon emissions rather ...

Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV review

What is it? Is this really the answer in embattled 2022? Does it look any better in the flesh? What's the verdict? What is it like to drive? What is it like on the inside? What should I be ...

The Peugeot e-208 now has more range thanks to the new e-308

Electric And it’s getting more power too. Hurrah! New e-308 allows for improvements to its smaller sibling Peugeot has announced that from next year the e-208 will improve its vital statistics thanks to some tech borrowed from its new e-308 ...

The Citroen Oli is an oddball electric concept we can’t help but love

Concept This four-seat family do-it-all machine keeps things light and easy. Literally This happy, squared-off fellow is Citroen’s latest concept, which it calls the ‘Oli’. And right out of the gate, it’s speaking our language. Well, apart from the French bit. ...

Audi working on 'DNA' project to inform its future self-driving, electric cars

Electric If all EVs of the future feature similar hardware, what makes an Audi 'feel' like an Audi? Audi is working on a project to figure out just exactly what an Audi feels like. The aim is to make its ...

Mythbusting the world of EVs: are trip computers accurate?

Electric Here's why you can trust your electric car's battery readout more than an ICE car MYTH: Trip computers are really inaccurate The good news: electric cars almost always have an amazingly accurate trip computer and battery gauge. Petrol and ...

Gently does it… Audi RS Q e-tron E2 takes on Morocco in testing

Motorsport No this isn’t a screengrab from Dune: Part 2, it’s the all-new and improved Audi RS Q e-tron E2 The Audi RS Q e-tron is going back for another crack at the Dakar Rally in 2023, but not before ...

The R5 TURBO 3E concept is the perfect EV drifter

Electric Renault’s built an electric drifting machine to invoke the spirit of the 5 Turbo, and good lord is it cool Is it just us, or is Renault smashing it out of the park with its concept cars right now? ...

Meet the new Renault Trafic Van E-Tech Electric

Electric First electric version of the Renault Trafic van revealed at IAA in Hannover Electric vans are slowly but surely becoming A Thing, aren’t they? Just a few weeks ago we were cruising around in the new Volkswagen ID. Buzz ...

The Polestar 3 will cost from £78,900 in the UK

Electric Prices and specs for the hotly-anticipated Polestar 3 have leaked ahead of schedule, and the numbers are… big We were expecting some Polestar 3 news early this autumn, but not this early: prices and performance details for the brand’s “SUV ...

Skoda Enyaq Review: interior, range, price, 0-60mph & more

TG Tested 13 minutes 10 seconds There was a time when Skodas used to be the punchlines to all car jokes. Well, not anymore, thanks to a bunch of Volkswagen bits and some common sense pricing. Enter the Enyaq: Skoda’s ...

Italy has a brand-new car manufacturer: Aehra

Electric All-electric, ‘ultra-premium’ and penned by ex-Lambo alumni… but will it work out? Spare a thought, if you will, for the brand-new car manufacturer. Not only does everyone involved have to start from quite literally square one in terms of ...

This Volkswagen ID. Buzz concept looks like a fridge…

Electric …while another ID. Buzz concept actually IS a fridge. Check out these IAA 2022 showcases Now that we’ve driven the ID. Buzz and the ID. Buzz Cargo, VW has embarked on the next phase of its ‘here’s why you ...

Mythbusting the world of EVs: do you have to charge your electric car every night?

Electric MYTH: YOU HAVE TO CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR EVERY NIGHT This myth pops up often when talk turns to public infrastructure, and also the capacity of the grid. People do the following pointless calculation. “All cars are electric” x “all ...

Hurrah! Peugeot is launching an all-electric 308 estate

Electric Oh, and the 308 hatch is getting an EV version too. We’re all about the estate, though Great news for all those who wanted an electric estate car but couldn’t quite bring themselves to buy an MG 5 – ...

BMW's built a 536bhp electric 'Dune Taxi' prototype

Motorsport Video shows electric off-roader flinging through the Arabian Desert. So, where is the Dakar held these days? First things first: BMW hasn’t said a single thing about taking on the Dakar Rally. Nor a tilt at Extreme E. All ...

Dacia CEO on electrification: “Our job is to be late”

Electric Big boss of Dacia Denis Le Vot tells TG that the brand will wait it out before going all-electric Dacia boss Denis Le Vot has said that the brand will wait it out for as long as possible before ...

What’s the best electric vehicle for teenagers?

Top Gear Advice The Opel Rocks-e can be driven by German teens at 15. But will they actually want to? We all craved a certain amount of freedom and independence when we were teenagers, didn’t we? The sort of freedom ...

Driving Audi's monster RS Q e-tron... in town

A tape measure. I knew I’d forgotten something. Budduso is like any other Mediterranean hill town, impossibly ancient and solid, tall houses crowding over narrow cobbled streets, leaning over to keep an eye on the world below. I might be able ...

Driving a restomodded electric Citroen DS

Behind me, sitting in the big sofa of a back seat, I have passengers. They’re the ghosts of the DS’s creators, but the apparition doesn’t feel sinister. They are surely delighted, finally satisfied that after all these years this is ...

The ID. XTREME is a rally-spec ID.4 concept with 377bhp

Electric Whisper it, but this could apparently make production if demand is strong enough Fancy some silent rally action? Well you’re in luck, because Volkswagen has just unveiled this – the ID. XTREME concept based on the ID.4 GTX. We ...

Want to build your own EV hypercar? We’d suggest starting here

Electric Williams creates a rolling physics-bending machine – just add bodywork By now, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘actions speak louder than words’. And for Williams Advanced Engineering to create a turn-key electric hypercar chassis with 2,200bhp – just add ...

Former AMG and Aston chief Tobias Moers is now the boss of Piech Automotive

Electric Well, co-boss anyway. Moers links up with Manfred Fitzgerald to lead development of the 603bhp GT Tobias Moers – the ex-boss of AMG and Aston Martin – has been appointed CEO and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of young Swiss ...

Volkswagen ID. Buzz Cargo review: electric microbus becomes an electric van

Ah, here’s just the commercial vehicle for the sustainably-minded, design-led business? So it isn’t merely a bit of retro fluff like the New Beetle was? Looks like a van version of the Buzz MPV? What will it carry? How ...

The Citroen My Ami Tonic is a special edition top-of-the-range Ami

Electric Citroen’s cute little urban EV gets a special khaki and yellow colour scheme. Yours for £8,695 It would seem that the design team at Citroen are rather fond of the Ami and the endless customisation options it brings. First ...

Here’s the clearest look yet at the new, all-electric Maserati GranTurismo Folgore

Electric Maserati teases upcoming 1,200bhp GT… by chauffeuring a comedian The car you’ll recognise. The trident badge and GranTurismo name as well. The comedian riding along in the passenger seat? Er, not sure about that. Nor the ‘Folgore’ written on ...

Watch: Top Gear's Ford Mustang Mach-E review

TG Tested 13 minutes 40 seconds It took Ford 50 years to officially bring the Mustang over to the UK, and now we’re supposed to believe the Mustang can be an electric family crossover? The Mustang Mach-E is Ford’s first ...

Bollinger’s making trucks. No, like actual trucks

Truck The team behind those wish-we-got-’em off-roaders sets its sights on something heavier duty If you remember Bollinger, you’ll remember an EV off-roader that looked like it was styled entirely with a ruler. No, the other one. You might also ...

Doctor claims first Rivian-powered vasectomy

Weird When a power cut hit a clinic in Austin, the patient didn’t want to reschedule. So the doctor roped in a Rivian R1T… Well, um, this is unusual isn’t it? Car Twitter went into something of a frenzy this ...

Audi’s mad RS Q e-tron off-road racer is now even quicker

Motorsport Audi Sport’s tilt at Dakar success gets lighter and more aerodynamic Ah, the RS Q e-tron. Even its name suggests complexity, a need for very specific knowledge of both Audi and its intent. If someone were to ask us ...

BMW is still persisting with hydrogen fuel cells

Electric And, ever the wet blanket, we explain why it really shouldn’t be If we didn’t know any better, we’d say it looks like BMW is hedging its bets on the future of propulsion. As such, it’s begun building its ...

Why Skoda’s new SUV concept is its most rugged car since the Yeti

Electric The designer behind Skoda’s cult favourite has sprinkled some outdoorsy magic on his latest project The Skoda Vision 7S represents several things all in one go: an all-new halo SUV that’ll top the company’s whole range, the first concept ...

Want to recharge your EV in 10 minutes?

Electric Researchers have found a way to slash recharge times – goodbye, splash and dash; hello zap and zip Here’s a fun experiment. Put anything vaguely positive about electric cars on the internet, then wait. Sure as night follows day ...

The Vision 7S will be Skoda’s biggest, poshest car yet

Electric Electric seven-seater launches the company’s new direction as a big halo SUV Welcome to the future of Skoda. This is the Vision 7S – a hint not only at what a future seven-seat electric car will look like, but ...

Ariel Hipercar review: prototype hyper-EV that'll get a jet engine

What’s tha- Shouldn’t it be called the Ariel ‘Hypercar’? No dispute there. How big is it? And what’s it like to actually drive? What’s tha- 3…2…1…G… a whining yowl, sudden hiss and zizz from the tyres, smoke pours up ...

Kia EV6 GT review: a budget alternative to the Taycan?

How exciting, a new trim level. The most powerful Kia ever?! What makes it special? Does it drive as well as it goes on paper? Give me some vital statistics. OK, that all sounds good. But who’s it actually ...

AC Schnitzer has tuned the BMW i4... kind of

Modified Suspension and aero bits only, we’re afraid. But then power is hardly the i4’s weak point Here’s a bit of a new conundrum: how do we tune electric cars? The obvious answer is to dive into the software and ...

Koenigsegg reckons EVs might not be the answer for low-volume carmakers

Electric CvK reckons clean, synthetic fuels and low weight will be better for overall environmental impact Koenigsegg has admitted that though his company has mapped out plans for an electric hypercar in the future, he’s not convinced it’s the only ...

Mythbusting the world of EVs: do they work if you live in the countryside?

Electric Surely being out of reach of public charging means you'll get stuck everywhere, right? Well, not quite MYTH: AN EV IS NO GOOD IF YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE This is a myth that gets bandied about because it’s ...

The Polestar 6 will be offered with a range of powertrain options

Electric But if you want the ‘LA Edition’ you might already be too late – they've pretty much sold out The Polestar 6 roadster, the production version of the O2 concept that’ll debut in 2026, will be offered with a ...

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