Suppose you one of those people who has to have a car to do the short trips — to the newspaper shop, to school, to the local library, to the station even. Now there’s a very low-cost electric powered driving option available. And if you generate your own power, it’s effectively free, if you discount… Continue reading
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Knutsford Great Race draws international penny farthing riders
The Knutsford Great Race, 2010 is the fourth running of the once-in-10-year international penny farthing race, held in Knutsford, Cheshire. The writer inspected some machines and found out more about this brief but exciting taechnology.
Continue reading →Petrol-sipping car ad goes mainstream
Now here’s a thing. The first double page colour advert in a national newspaper that I’ve seen selling a mainstream car (which is neither a hybrid nor an electric vehicle) with emissions so low the owner doesn’t have to pay road tax. Granted the tagline to the advert in the Mail on Sunday’s Live magazine for… Continue reading →
US on a revolutionary road to electric biking
A small US start-up company recently pulled in big media interest for its electric motorbikes when two employees rode the zero emission vehicles from Detroit to Washington, DC, and earned their boss a meeting with the US energy secretary. The current model does 45 miles — enough for many commuters. The next “game changing” model will do 100 miles on a charge. Here’s a roundup.
Continue reading →Why pay more at the pump?
The arrival of more affordable electric cars in 2011 will mark the start of what could be still quite a slow shift to cleaner and more environmentally sound transport. In the meantime, or as an alternative, anybody planning to buy a new car has a growing choice of conventional diesel and petrol-driven models which achieve roughly… Continue reading →
Car manufacturer starts campaign to improve UK air quality
The pressing global imperative of driving down CO2 emissions is now accepted by the motor industry. But while enormous energy was devoted to that campaign by environmentalists, a more immediate threat has been insidiously creeping back along the pavements of busy town and city streets. The pollutants issuing from the tail pipes of petrol and… Continue reading →