A YouGov poll we commissioned reveals that 93% of Brits know how to cycle, but more than half have not turned a pedal in more than a year. Almost one in three has not ridden a bike in a decade or more. Back on a Bike is our answer. It’s the name of our outreach programme to promote cycling to…
New supercapacitor technology developed by Surrey University promises to make electric cars quicker to recharge than conventional cars take to fill with petrol. Supercapacitors can accept and deliver a charge much faster than batteries, and tolerate many more charge and discharge cycles than rechargeable batteries. These qualities plus their potential to be 10,000 times more powerful than existing battery alternatives…
As cities around the world wake up to the environmental, social and health benefits of reducing motorised traffic, the most ambitious are pledging to go car free: Hamburg plans to phase cars out of its city centre by 2034; Vancouver wants to make 50% of its journeys non-car by 2020; Copenhagen intends to be the first carbon-neutral city by 2025. To…
We hear much about the pollution created by cars and lorries, but the growth in emissions from shipping and aviation will undo 43 per cent of the savings expected to be made by the rest of transport in Europe over the net 13 years. The result is that almost half the already-inadequate emissions savings expected in land transport will be…
The idea of travelling in an extremely small and lightweight vehicle that will not move without physical effort from its driver will seem outlandish to motorists who do little more than turn a key, but we are great fans of human powered vehicles (HPVs). These environmentally benign vehicles could have a transformative effect on the way we get about town…
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