An overnight charge at home will provide enough range for most journeys, road trips beyond your car’s range will mean the car needs topping up on the way. Thankfully the UK’s charging infrastructure is improving all the time, with the number of public charge points increasing from around...
It takes just over half of one cow to produce the tallow required to make all of the UK’s £5 notes – but have you checked your car tyres or beer recently? Both contain some of the myriad by-products that we get from farmed animals. For more information, check out my latest blog...
Alright, alright. This might be a slight technicality within the framework of the rules, but hear me out. Obviously, this isn’t the work of Bentley, rather a fictitious mock-ups by pixel wizards on the internet. But that doesn’t mean that this car isn’t an impossibility. Money is ...
But it's not as lucky as it sounds, at least for charging electric cars – very few cars sold in the UK can use three-phase AC, so you're unlikely to be any further forward. If they do – the Audi e-tron and various Teslas spring to mind – it's usually at a maximum o...
though. The original purchase price of £28,995 has just been slashed in the USA to around £15k in a bid to get them moving off the showroom floor. It’s likely that the UK will adopt this new price next year, at which time we expect to see plenty more of th...
I’ve used the Exped DownMat 7 for the past 4 years and found it to be comfy and warm in any season in the UK — though I do sleep warm. I have been using the Alpkit Cloudbase for the past 18 months for trips of 2 / 3 nights as I tend to take minimal equipment on shorter ...
Motorists also run red lights: when they do so, the risks are to others as well as themselves. PNEUMATIC TYRES The first practical pneumatic tyre was made in 1887 by John Boyd Dunlop, a Scottish veterinarian, for his son’s bicycle. Dunlop founded the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd in ...
On a CO2 climate change perspective, a combustion car in the UK only has to do ~44mpg to have the same foot print as an EV, once manufacturing and power source is taken into account. Though France with it’s high Nuclear power production, a combustion car has do better than 123mpg to...
it dances about on the road surprisingly well. It has brilliant poise on the brakes too and is nicely balanced when you do tip it into a corner. I was extremely impressed by the latest generationMetzeler Roadtec 01 SE tyreswhen I tested them in Italy, and the Honda NT1100 is just the ...
Fossil plastics can do the job in many cases, but they need to be managed well. Even then, they can still have detrimental effects on the environment, e.g., through microplastics’ and nanoplastics’ formation during the use or recycling phases, and at the end of their lifetime, typically...