Byline: By SANDY McKENZIEEvening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
As for my personal situation, because I choose to run a 1.9 litres, low mileage (approx 53K) eleven years old, oil burning car, I am punished out of all proportion to the pollution I create because my motoring is merely around 3000 mile per year. I could of course go to on...
Yes; I’m not a rider myself, but I’ve seen analyses and stats that suggest that moving in and out of slow moving or stationary traffic in a responsible way is no more dangerous per mile than sticking strictly to lane discipline. The dangers occur when relative speed differences are high...
All we need to do is divide 64.2mpg by the price of a gallon and we get running costs per mile of… 9.63 pence. Which means it’s almost two pence per mile cheaper to drive the EV. I’ll be honest, I thought the savings would be… bigger. You’re right to feel a little aggr...
There are an estimated 150,000 misfuels in the UK each year 95% of them are people putting petrol into diesel vehicles due to the wider diesel filler neck and narrower unleaded nozzle Growing problem over last five years due to the high sales of diesel cars, improved and refined diesel...
So if a service statin sell petrol at £8 a gallon that does a typical 40 miles, or 20p a mile, then electricity needs to be no more than 3 miles per kwh * 20p * 70% = 42p kwh. Want to charge more for electricity, you charge more for petrol and...
From https://trl.co.uk/sites/default/files/TRL440.pdf“Finch et al (1994) showed that a reduction of 1 mile/h is associated with roughly a 5% accident saving across a range of road types. ” and“In total, company car drivers had 49% moreaccidents than ‘ordinary’ drivers, even whe...
Diesel is about 10p/mile. Maintenance costs seem to be the same. Then the Nissan leaf is the worst car in the UK for depreciation. Not cheap and electric costs away from home is more expensive, apart from Dundee! 4 Reply Maureen 6 years ago Price puts car completely out of the ...
Add to that an inability for UK users to do anything about it, ie bring pressure to bear … ! 7 Reply John R 5 years ago I think all imposers of costs on motorists and households for “environmental” or “clean air” reasons should have to specify to the penny what they are ...