Category - UK & International

Clean Energy Clean Energy Investment EV - Electric Vehicles UK UK Transport policy

Making the case for releasing Scotland from UK electricity bills

In the UK we have an electricity network that receives lots of cheap wind and solar renewable power, and then delivers it to consumers and businesses at the price set by gas, the most expensive electricity source. Poor...

23rd May 2026

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London Our Streets

Putney school street opens – thank you!

On Friday the 5th June I put in an application for the “3 school” “school street” along Charlwood road in Putney. Having been a parent at Our Lady of Victories, I can remember the chaos of 850 primary children and their...

8th July 2020

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London Our Streets UK Transport policy

School Streets In London

Putney “3 school” school street Update Update on the 29th June 2020A big day as, thanks to some fab “community volunteers” from Extinction Rebellion in Putney, the first half of the school street is up and running and...

11th May 2022

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Clean Air Zone - charging or ban EV - Electric Vehicles PHEV -Plugin Hybrid RDE2 UK UK Transport policy Vans

Solving a problem with the ULEZ to cut air pollution from vans further and faster

Issue The timing of the ULEZ rollout, especially the inner zone in April 2019 will push businesses to replace old diesel vans with dirty but exempt Euro 6 diesels rather than the wider choice of affordable zero emission...

8th March 2022

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EV policy UK UK Transport policy

Should EV’s be exempt from the £310 a year VED supplement for cars costing over £40,000

Making Sense? Recent changes to VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) and cuts to grants for plugin hybrids and EV’s The Government announced that the grants towards the purchase of plugin hybrid vehicles would cease and...

1st October 2020

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Cars Diesel UK

February car sales fall for 11th Month in a row

UK car sales have now fallen every month since George Osbourne’s VED changes -compared to the same month the previous year. Next month will likely show an even bigger % drop because March 2017 was boosted by...

6th March 2018

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Clean Air Zone - charging or ban Oxford

Oxford Car Ban review

Big news on #AirQuality – Oxford to ban all petrol diesel cars starting in 2020. Small initial zone expands in 2025 — David Nicholson (@rivergecko) October 11, 2017 In October 2017, the city of Oxford...

8th March 2022

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Diesel UK

UK Diesel Market Share – SMMT stats

We will be doing monthly updates of this chart of SMMT data showing what is happening to diesel sales. October 2017 update After dipping – just – under 40% in the smaller sales month of August it rose...

12th February 2018

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China EV - Electric Vehicles

Saab 9-3 is back – as a volume EV model

Thought Saab was dead and no longer making cars? Well Chinese company NEVS had other plans when it took over Saab’s assets turning the 9-3 into a EV car and SUV designed to appeal to the big Chinese mobile car...

3rd May 2020

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Clean Air Zone - charging or ban London

Why an effective London’s air pollution policy may be arriving soon

In 2015, in a case by ClientEarth, the UK government lost the legal argument that it had any effective plan to improve air quality in London and other cities, and then the Volkswagen scandal broke. What had been an...

11th February 2018

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Category - UK & International

Making the case for releasing Scotland from UK electricity bills

Putney school street opens – thank you!

School Streets In London

Solving a problem with the ULEZ to cut air pollution from vans further and faster

Should EV’s be exempt from the £310 a year VED supplement for cars costing over £40,000

February car sales fall for 11th Month in a row

Oxford Car Ban review

UK Diesel Market Share – SMMT stats

Saab 9-3 is back – as a volume EV model

Why an effective London’s air pollution policy may be arriving soon

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