Google and Fiat unveil three cars featuring integrated virtual assistants

While Apple still irons out details of its rumored branded vehicle, Google has unveiled its own through at partnership with Fiat. The team unveiled the Fiat 500 Family Hey Google that includes three models: 500 city car, 500X crossover and 500L MPV. Each vehicle sports a Google badges and is integrated with Google Assistant that … Read more

Stunning footage shows huge line of cop cars guiding hero Boulder cop, 51, to hospital

Officer Eric Talley, 51, was a father to seven children and among the 10 people killed in the shooting Dozens of police cars and emergency vehicles were involved in a flashing light procession last night as they helped escort the body of the slain Boulder police officer away from the scene of the grocery store … Read more

European Public Health Alliance calls for cities to BAN polluting cars

Cities across the UK ‘should restrict traffic’ and impose bans for the most emitting vehicles to most effectively tackle their high air pollution levels, a European health organisation has said today. In a new report it says the most effective way of reducing pollution is to restrict older models from cities, and charging drivers of … Read more

Website where neighbours rail against everything from badly parked cars to mysterious smells

Sylvia is rather concerned about a suspicious character she has seen lurking in our neighbourhood. ‘He is wearing a high-vis jacket and carrying one of those litter pickers,’ she reports. ‘I approached him and he told me to mind my own business. Something’s just not right.’ Unless there’s a new type of conscientious criminal who … Read more

Mini will switch to battery-only cars by 2030

Mini will switch to battery-only cars within a decade as parent company aims to go all-electric by 2030 BMW has announced it intends to only sell electrically-powered Mini from 2030 Oxford car-maker will launch last internal combustion engine vehicles in 2025 Move from BMW follows similar choice to go electric by Ford, Jaguar and Volvo  … Read more

Car mechanics reveal bizarre things they have seen – including animals in cars

Driving into trouble! Mechanics reveal the bizare things they’ve seen in cars – from a creepy doll to a glove compartment filled with green slime Car mechanics have revealed the unusual things they have seen while working One vehicle was impaled on a branch, while one car claimed it was a ‘biohazard’  While some mishaps … Read more

Electric cars could be topped up in less than 10 minutes thanks to ‘battery swapping’ stations

San Francisco-based Ample announced a new battery charging technology that refuels electric vehicles from any automaker in just 10 minutes – three times faster than traditional systems. Using Modular Battery system, AI-powered robots remove the depleted battery and replace it with a fully charged unit – Ample says its batteries are like Lego-blocks that can … Read more

Gangs grooming six-year-olds to steal from cars in similar tactics to county lines drug runners 

Gangs are grooming six-year-old children to steal from cars in similar tactics to county lines drug runners Children as young as six are caught stealing from cars by organised crime gangs Vehicle crime study in the UK showed 39,635 offences committed by children  Around 40 per cent of those were carried out by children aged … Read more