Tailgating is a contributory factor in a significant number of collisions so business fleet operators are now being offered free training for their drivers. The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) is offering free courses on behalf the Road Safety Trust. Employers with young, male drivers who undertake regular driving in light goods vehicles or cars during work, with significant mileage on…
Britain’s most radical automotive company is edging ever closer to full-scale production of a hydrogen car with a 300-mile range. Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car Riversimple aims to transform the way we use our cars by replacing outright ownership of diesel and petrol cars with hydrogen-powered vehicles you lease like a mobile phone. Customers will typically take a car for 1 – 3…
How many miles of road would you guess crisscross this little island of ours? 100,000? 200,000? According to the Department for Transport there are 245,000 miles of roads in Britain; a distance equivalent to circumnavigating the earth 10 times. Even more surprising than the size of our road network is the relatively tiny proportion of it that was designed and…
Electric car technology is evolving quickly, but don’t expect the internal combustion engine to go down without a fight. By the 1950s most cars had ditched 6-volt batteries in favour of the 12-volt variety. The larger capacity was better suited to cold starts and the increasing number of powered gizmos being used to tempt drivers. Almost 70 years later at…
Toyota has the answer to urban transport in 2030. Possibly. Forget about 0-60 times and top speed, the latest Toyota concept car is being promoted on the promise of “fun whilst driving even at slow speeds in the urban environment.” In a sign of cars to come, i-TRIL is driven by an electric motor, seats three and weighs in at only…
