transportation

From Karl Benz's 1886 Patent-Motorwagen to today's electric vehicles, discover how the automobile was invented, who built it first, and why it reshaped civilization.

Norway has the highest electric share of any national car fleet, with more than one in three cars electric, and 97% of its 2025 new-car sales were electric or plug-in hybrid. Here is how every major market compares, and why fleet share and sales share tell different stories.

An EV is dramatically simpler than a petrol car — a battery, a motor, some software. Here's how the parts work together, the trade-offs versus combustion, and what's coming next.