So Californian electric car manufacturer Tesla is suing the BBC over a Top Gear programme in which one of the company’s $100,000 Roadsters is said to have run out of charge during a race with a petrol driven vehicle. The BBC denies the allegation. It’s the company’s second run in with the BBC. Earlier this… Continue reading
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Check-in for bed, breakfast and an overnight charge for your electric car
It’s been a big week for electric cars, with the launch of the Nissan Leaf in the UK. It’s a smart business that takes advantage of these green developments, both to help its customers, and advance its own eco-credentials. Hotels are the obvious partners to the electric car (EV) driver. Arrive at the end of… Continue reading →
Could the USA be in for a railway revolution?
Anyone who has travelled any distance on the roads in the USA will be be familiar with the intimidating phenomenon of the super sized American truck, powering up behind on their odysseys across the nation. They may also have noticed the alternative transport solution, once marginal but now increasingly relevant. In the US freight trains… Continue reading →
Low-energy homes–old and new
The writer has been a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times Home section. How snug was was your winter? Did your house cope comfortably with the bitter chill of December 2010, or, like most of the rest of us, did you simply crank up the central heating and throw on more blankets? Here are two… Continue reading →
Time to inform drivers on vehicle emissions besides Co2
More hazardous pollutants from a car exhaust apart from Co2 I live close to a pollution hotspot, and, like many otherwise well-intentioned people I know, I add to that pollution. I don’t drop litter, or pitch trolleys into the canal, or do things I could easily stop. This is everyday, going-about-normal-life pollution I’m talking… Continue reading →
Sunshine solution for smelly old rubbish dumps
Full up rubbish dumps could be covered over with solar farms, as as an extreme greening of the environment option. You may have seen these beguiling but useless green mounds: a previously rough area caringly restored to nature, perhaps? But look closer and there’s something very wrong. The clue is the pipes and gadgets siphoning,… Continue reading →