Is the affordable electric car (EV) finally here? The Renault Zoe will be in showrooms by spring 2012, just in time to be driven (congestion charge free, of course) through the streets of London to the Olympic Games. It should cost around £12,000, although with an additional, unexpected, expense. You lease the battery for around… Continue reading
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BBC film literary series in restaurant serving endangered blue fin tuna
Part of the flagship BBC2 series Faulks on Fiction has been shot in a London restaurant which sells one of the most endangered fish species in the oceans. In the third part of the series presenter Sebastian Faulks is filmed dining in Nobu, whose owner is accused by conservationists of helping to drive the bluefin… Continue reading →
Have low-energy, eco-friendly homes finally become affordable?
(The author has written extensively for the Sunday Times Home section.) I blogged last month about the “tea cosy houses” that should cost hardly anything to heat. This is an estate of 14 housing association homes now being built at Wimbish in Essex. Click here to read more. It will be one of the first… Continue reading →
“Tea cosy houses" will cost hardly anything to heat
The writer has been a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times Home section. A housing association development in the Essex countryside, now nearing completion, will be one of the first in Britain to meet the exacting Passivhaus low energy standards. The group of 14 home, which Hastoe Housing Association is putting up on a green… Continue reading →
Look, no hands. Safe and automatic road driving within sight
Imagine sitting in your car on the motorway at 70 miles an hour. You’re in the driver’s seat, but your hands are off the wheel, you are drinking a cup of coffee and studying those important notes for the meeting you’re heading to 100 miles away. Do you want to reread that? Your hands are… Continue reading →
Could 2011 be the year the electric car takes off?
Could 2011 be the year the electric car (EV) takes off? UK Transport Secretary Philip Hammond believes it might. His optimistic words came as the government announced the full list of cars, each one with CO2 emissions less than 75 g/km (grams per kilometre) that attract a grant of up to £5000 when you buy… Continue reading →