Best cars 2025: Our brilliant and bonkers highlights of the year December 5, 2025 These are difficult times to be a car company. Cheap Chinese imports, costly US tariffs and the UK Government’s muddled approach to policymaking have all slowed sales and impacted the bottom line. And that’s before you factor in cyber attacks, semiconductor shortages, the cost of living crisis and the reluctance of many motorists to embrace [...]
London has world’s second-best tech sector December 4, 2025 London boasts the second-most vibrant tech sector in the world, according to a closely-watched study which found Zurich had leapfrogged San Francisco and Singapore to top the rankings. Britain’s capital nudged up one place in Z/Yen’s Smart Centres Index into second place in the biannual study that assesses cities’ ability to create, develop and deploy [...]
Powervault: London Mayor-backed Tesla battery rival collapses December 3, 2025 Battery storage firm Powervault, which had been tipped to become the UK rival to Tesla, has collapsed into administration, City AM can reveal. The London-based company, which had been backed by the Mayor of London’s Greater London Investment Fund as well as the British Business Bank, has appointed administrators Menzies to oversee its wind-down, according [...]
UMA Launches from Europe to Shape the Global Future of Physical AI December 1, 2025 UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), a new robotics intelligence company founded by former leaders from Tesla, Google DeepMind, Nvidia and Hugging Face, launches today with a clear goal: to bring advanced AI into the physical world and build humanoid robots ready for real work, in real environments, at scale. UMA’s founders were instrumental in shaping the [...]
Santander: UK businesses shift away from China as tensions flare November 18, 2025 UK businesses are moving away from China as risks mount amid flaring geopolitical tensions. Over half of firms are taking steps to bring their supply chains closer to home, with one in five having already relocated their network closer to the UK. The moves come amid questions over China’s dominance in the supply chain, with [...]
AI bubble fears: Which of the Magnificent Seven will pop? November 17, 2025 The spectacle of the so-called Magnificent Seven – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia – has been the defining market story of this generation. Synonymous with the AI boom, their collective valuation, now commanding a fifth of global markets, is underpinned by the fervent belief that they alone will win the AI arms [...]
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N 2025 review: Electric that pretends to be petrol November 17, 2025 As many a YouTube drag race can attest, electric cars aren’t deficient when it comes to straight-line speed. After that sugar-rush of giddy acceleration wears off, though, you may be left feeling empty and unsatisfied. Going fast doesn’t necessarily equate to having fun. Many believe that EVs are too heavy and too complicated, smothering the [...]
What can Britain learn from Elon Musk? How to fail… November 17, 2025 British engineering needs to be a little more Musk; pragmatic, ambitious and unafraid to learn in public, says Robert Rayner Elon Musk’s rise to trillionaire status is more than a story of wealth, it is a display of how technological vision and financial resilience can merge into a new model of progress. His trillion-dollar payout [...]
BMW i7 review: Flagship luxury saloon suits being electric November 14, 2025 Let’s just gloss over how it looks. Style is subjective, after all. And without wanting to inflame international tensions, I suspect this BMW wasn’t designed with European tastes in mind. Besides, you can’t see that gigantic fake grille when you recline in one of the i7’s heated rear armchairs. Instead, your field of vision is [...]
Musk’s $trillion pay package is impossible to justify November 11, 2025 The Notebook, where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today it’s investment analyst Susannah Streeter with the pen Radio phone-ins, social media feeds and TV news programmes have all been taken over by talk of Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar deal. I was woken super early by one producer and the phone barely stopped ringing, [...]