Imagine you’re on a trip down a UK motorway and making good progress and then up pop those...
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Electric cars and vans
WELCOME TO MYURBANCAR
It’s time for electric cars running on clean energy, not polluting pistons & fossils. We have tips and advice on the website and on the @myurbancar twitter feed which can be viewed below
If you have any questions to help your transition to an electric car or van drop us a line on twitter
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MyUrbanCar twitter feed gives you regular updates on the latest news and reviews for electric and plugin cars and vans in the UK. You can see the latest ones here even if you aren’t on Twitter
@RiverGecko Tweets
Our @rivergecko twitter feed includes some of the UK electric car news but is also Clean Tech – Climate change Tech – EVs – Renewable Energy including wind and solar – clean trains and boats...
Quick guides
Fact-check. What evidence is there that new diesel cars still highly polluting?
Table Of Contents Lobbyists for the car industry for diesel technology (including some of the motoring press and motoring experts) say that older diesel cars are dirty but new Euro 6 diesel cars are clean. They say...
What is air pollution from a car?
There still seems to a little confusion about what a pollutant is so here’s a quick guide. Cars with conventional engines produce some gases that make the air toxic to breathe and some that are not toxic but are bad for...
6 easy steps for drivers to improve urban air
1. Go Diesel Free – Pledge not to buy another diesel On average even a new Euro 6 diesel car emits 7 times as much NO2 as new Euro 6 petrol cars in the real world. The worst diesels emit as much as more than 30...
