A US citizen who initially claimed diplomatic immunity, Anne Sacoolas, has pled guilty to causing the death of Northamptonshire teenager, Harry Dunn after 3 years. She’ll be sentenced at the end of next month. More detail in this Guardian story.
The EURO 7 emissions standard is rumoured to be in doubt as it’s now felt that the cost and difficulty in implementing will far outweigh the benefits it’s expected to bring. This is, unsurprisingly, contentious. There’s an Autocar story with more details and an informed Twitter thread from Emissions Analytics on the subject.
In the first 8 months since its expansion last November, London’s expanded ULEZ zone has raised £93.6 million in tolls but excluding late and non-payment fines. More in this Autocar article.
The British Standards Institute, in association with the UK Government and charity Motability, has published its first standard for the accessibility of public EV charging stations. This can’t come too soon. This Zap-Map article has more information.
The rise in electricity costs across Europe has caused Hyundai to pause its hydrogen truck trials in Switzerland due to a shortage of “green” hydrogen. Here’s the twitter thread containing the original report in German and also a link to the LinkedIn rebuttal/correction from Hyundai.
Fladgling commercial EV manufacturer, Arrival, is looking to “pivot” back tot the US and “right-size” the company according to Tech Crunch and others. This isn’t looking good.
4 councils across England are looking to crack down on loud cars. Quite what constitutes “loud”, nobody seems able to say. Autocar investigated a little more.
Bentley has gathered its collection of historic vehicles into a new Heritage Garage at its Crewe factory. The collection will be open to the press, VIPs and customers according to Hagerty.
Rally Spain took place over the weekend. Seb Ogier was victorious and Toyota have taken the World Championship crown. Oh, and Ott Tanak is leaving Hyundai at the end of the season…
