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In the U.S., the average driver spends around an hour in the car per day with hands on the wheel, eyes on the road. The connected car revolution—linked with the rise of autonomous drive—will enable drivers to use this time more productively.

After making its breakthrough in the compact and sports car segments of the global car market, electrification is now coming to the world of the big hitters in the luxury sector.

Lance Bradley, Managing Director: "The benefit of our plug-in hybrids is that you don’t need charging stations, because you can do it at home. It’s not a pure electric car where you need a recharge you’re stuck."

Mattias Ekström opens the doors of the ABT CUPRA XE team paddock, where nothing goes unused. Teams of eight people and no public audience, some of the keys to reducing the environmental impact. The philosophy of the Extreme E Series is to highlight the importance of achieving a more sustainable world.

"I thought that a green motor sport could have a great impact on technology and, at the end of the day, on people’s lives. That's why, for me, it made sense to create this."

The need for action is urgent: in 2016 the average speed of a car in London hit a new low of under 8 mph—less than the speed of a horse-drawn carriage in the same streets in the Victorian era

Oslo, Madrid, Paris and London are considering partial or even total bans on diesel-powered vehicles in their city centers, as policymakers begin to rethink the role of cars in the urban mobility of tomorrow.

Empowerment is the name of the game in the disruptive new partnership between Nissan and Enel to develop Vehicle- to-Grid (V2G) technology with the potential to provide power anywhere four wheels can take you.

In August 2016, just as the Renault-Nissan Alliance surpassed 100,000 annual sales of its EVs, Renault sold its 100,000th EV to a customer in Norway. The car, fittingly enough, was a Renault ZOE, the best-selling EV in Europe.

Increasing public concern over emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants from cars, combined with advances in technologies for batteries and alternative fuels, has led to a rapid growth in the market for low emission vehicles.