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Job cuts at Jaguar Land Rover show how a sensible corporate strategy is not always enough

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Lakshminarasimhan Vedanthachari, Royal Holloway, University of London Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to cut thousands of jobs comes after years of dealing with some extremely tough...

Ferrari’s first electric supercar has proved controversial – a car designer explains why

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Aamer Mahmud, Coventry University Ferrari’s new sportscar, the Luce (pronounced Loo-che), raises some interesting questions about the future of hi-tech, high-cost supercars in the electric...

Smart motorways were halted over safety concerns – what’s the future for digital roads?

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Mehreen Ashraf, Cardiff University For many people, the rollout of smart technology across the UK’s road network has been clouded by fears about the removal...

Are our cars spying on us? A cybersecurity expert explains how to stay safe

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Dennis B. Desmond, University of the Sunshine Coast Australia’s spy agency issued a stark warning to politicians and public servants last week: do not discuss...

Self‑driving cars struggle to see at night or in fog – but imitating the human brain can make them safe

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Pablo Hernández Cámara, Universitat de València Picture this: you’re driving on a mountain road, when you suddenly hit a thick patch of fog. You respond...

Electric vehicles pass tipping point, breaking the link with oil prices

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Viet Nguyen-Tien, London School of Economics and Political Science; Gavin D. J. Harper, University of Birmingham, and Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham When the Strait...

A world‑first quantum battery charges faster when it gets bigger – but it’s tiny and only lasts nanoseconds

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James Quach, CSIRO You’re late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realise your phone is flat. Imagine you could charge...

Petrol prices too high? Here’s how quickly an EV could save you money

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Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology Petrol prices began rising even before the conflict in Iran drove oil prices higher. Australia imports around 80% of...

‘Blood cobalt’ is disappearing from batteries – and cheaper, cleaner batteries are arriving

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Neeraj Sharma, UNSW Sydney You might have heard the common claim that electric cars aren’t really green – that their lithium-ion batteries rely on “blood”...

America is falling behind in the global EV race – that’s going to cost the US auto industry

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Hengrui Liu, Tufts University and Kelly Sims Gallagher, Tufts University At the 2026 Detroit Auto Show, the spotlight quietly shifted. Electric vehicles, once framed as...
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