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…
According to the Royal Navy’s current recruitment drive: If you can fix a bicycle, you can repair a car. And if you can repair a car you can learn to maintain a helicopter. The trouble is that so few of us now repair our own bicycles, let alone cars, that the idea of dismantling and then rebuilding an aircraft engine seems impossible…
British drivers make more claims for whiplash per car collision than any other western European country, according to research this month. Almost 80% of road traffic collisions where one driver admits liability will lead to a claim whiplash claim compared to 35 per cent in the Netherlands and 30 per cent in France found the report by LV. The injury occurs when…
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