With petrol and diesel prices soaring switching to lower cost EV motoring in 2022 must make more sense than ever right?Unfortunately 2022 hasn’t been shaping up that way. Costs of buying and charging an EV...
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Oxford Calling – Clean Air Charges
Forget London’s ULEZ – Oxford has a Zero Emissions Zone Ever since the “dieselgate” scandal when it first became clear that EU emissions regulations were a sham and that diesel vehicles in...
Winter EV Day trip – The Tate and Lunch in St Ives from London & back in a day
EV day trips There are some very common but really inaccurate misconceptions about driving electric cars that are still widely believed. One is that you can’t do high mileages or long trips in an electric car and...
10 things that killed diesel and how carmakers made them worse
The industry blamed others for diesels woes – the mainstream press and politicians causing “confusion about how clean diesels are etc” But if you had to pick 10 things at the crime scene – that...
Is the BMW i4 really better than the Tesla Model 3?
Both the BMW i4 and Tesla Model 3 are excellent cars so reviewers have perfectly valid reason to pick either as the better car. Ginny Buckley and Nicki Shields from Electrifying believe the BMW is the better car...
Fact-check. What evidence is there that new diesel cars are still highly polluting?
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 that the...
JCB Hydrogen combustion engines..the right choice?
JCB has just announced that it is investing £100 million on new hydrogen combustion engines for use in its iconic yellow diggers that are exported around the world. So what are the pros and cons of hydrogen? JCB spends...
8 things to know about switching from gas or oil to an Air Source Heatpump
Please note, I have had an air source heat pump installed in my Victorian terraced house in Southwest London, but am not an expert in heating or air source heat pumps. This is what I have learnt from being on the...
September 2021 UK car sales report –
September was the best month for UK electric car sales since December 2020, when we last did a sales report. December 2020 ended with a bit of a bang for pure EV or BEV sales. By comparison 2021 up to September was a...
Myth busting EV Day trips versus public charging – London to Anglesey and back
This trip took place on the 10th September 2021There are some very common but really inaccurate misconceptions about driving electric cars that are still widely believed. One is that you can’t do high mileages or...