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Thursday, 13 July 2017

BBC News

• Congestion warning if Severn bridge M4 tolls scrappedFreight businesses want the Severn bridge tolls scrapped but fear M4 congestion will continue.
• Faraday Future shelves electric car factoryThe electric car start-up has put plans for the the $1bn (£775m) facility in Nevada on hold indefinitely.
• Hitting the brakesWith demand for new cars down in America - the world's second-largest car market - how worried should automakers be?

The Guardian

• Electric car boom will fuel demand for power, says National GridIncrease in peak electricity demand could be more than capacity of planned Hinkley Point C nuclear power station by 2030A dramatic growth in electric vehicles on Britain’s roads could see peak electricity demand jump by more than the capacity of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station by 2030, according to National Grid.The number of plug-in cars and vans could reach 9m by 2030, up from around 90,000 today, said the company, which runs the UK’s national transmission networks for electricity and gas. Continue reading...

Birmingham Mail

• Councils see drivers as "wallets on wheels" say AASome 62% of local authorities have reduced their expenditure on services such as road maintenance, street lights and school crossing patrols since 2016/17

Birmingham Post

• Birmingham's cab firms will be ranked in futurePrivate hire firms will be rated on quality of customer service including drivers dress code and child seats - but the industry is not happy

Wales Online

• New £100m M4 to Cardiff Airport link road being considered as key project in £1.2bn City DealMajor park and ride schemes for thousands of vehicles at strategic sites on the Metro are also on the agenda

Buying Business Travel

• Lyft enables automatic expense receipt forwardingTaxi app announces deals with eight expense management providers

Green Miscellany

• The death knell is tolling for the petrol and diesel carThere are signs the death knell is tolling for the internal combustion with the announcement this week that France is to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040. The news will have come as little surprise to car makers, who have long been aware that time is running out for fossil fuels, but perhaps it took the VW emissions scandal… The post The death knell is tolling for the petrol and diesel car appeared first on ETA.

Other News Sources

• FTA says report balances workers’ rights with need for flexibility, but falls short of defining self-employmentThe UK’s biggest transport trade body, the Freight Transport Association (FTA), has welcomed the recommendations in Matthew Taylor’s report on ...