A feasibility study will be carried out into reopening a railway station at St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan.
It would serve the expanding industrial businesses at the former airbase and housing developments but its only a short distance between Rhoose and Llantwit Major halts.
Volvo Cars is streamlining and standardising its model names for fully electric cars, in line with ongoing transformation towards becoming a fully electric car maker by 2030.
The fully electric XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge models are renamed to EX40 and EC40 respectively, now seamlessly fitting in with our other fully electric models: the EX30, EX90 and EM90, while the XC40 name remains for internal combustion-powered variants of the model.
BMW, Audi and Ford are the top three brands chosen by those earning over £75,000 annually, says AutoTrader.
It surveyed 1,300 drivers and cross referenced with their salaries and found the better off are also most likely to have a hybrid or electric car on their drives but Land Rover languishes in the hands of just 6% of the richer drivers.
In January, new battery-electric car sales surged by 28.9% to 92,741 units, representing a total market share of 10.9% across Europe car makers reported.
EU registrations of hybrid-electric cars increased by 23.5%, propelled by significant growth in the four biggest markets: Spain (+26.5%), France (+29.9%), Germany (+24.3%), and Italy (+14.2%).
Scrap Car Comparison has been looking at the way motoring costs are rising and used the current rate of inflation to predict future costs, so MOTs could cost drivers over £80 per test by 2034, and over £370 for the annual checks in 50 years’ time.
The research also reveals that motorists could be paying over £415 per replacement tyre in just a decade’s time – far higher than the current £283 average cost.