Research reveals new diesel vehicles are getting cleaner with the very latest Euro 6 diesels showing an improvement on Euro 5 of 72%. “The regulation change to Euro 6 has reduced the permitted levels of NOx by 55% but, in real terms, the very latest Euro 6 diesels that we’ve tested are showing an improvement on Euro 5 of 72%,”…
Google and Apple do a good job of stealing driverless car headlines, but rather more quietly a British company will next week test its own autonomous car on embark on a 3,500-mile trans-American road trip. On March 22, Delphi Automotive will demonstrate its driverless car on a journey between Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to New York City –…
A wholesale switch to electric cars by British drivers would cut oils imports by 40 per cent and carbon emissions by almost half, according to a study by Cambridge Econometrics. The research found that calculated that nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter would be “all but eliminated” over the next 35 years. The problem caused by this type of pollution…
Goodyear has developed a new type of tyre that generates power to keep electric car batteries topped up. The BH03 tyre generates electricity using a piezoelectric process. This allows energy created by heat as the tyres flexes during driving to be transformed into electricity. Piezoelectric power The Goodyear car tyre is one of a number of ideas that promise to transform ‘wasted’ energy into electricity. A…
British drivers have had little access to ‘kei class’ micro cars – tiny sub-one litre cars that are efficient, practical, stylish and fun to drive. Until now. Perhaps it takes a motorcycle manufacturer to shake up the European city car market. Yamaha has announced it is to launch its tiny Motiv ‘kei class’ car in Europe within five years to…
