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A perplexing question- Why don’t UK air pollution experts like electric vehicles?

Air pollution from vehicles is a curse on the health of everyone around them including in other vehicles. The mortality burden of air pollution in England is estimated to be between 26,000 and 38,000 a year, but in...

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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...

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Why do electric car owners say they would never go back to a petrol, diesel or hybrid car?

As an electric car owner it’s funny sometimes what you hear said about EV’s (Electric Vehicles), mostly by people who have only tried one for an hour or sometimes not tried a recent EV at all. All they seem...

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Goodbye to the MyUrbanCar App

Back in 2017 at the height of the dieselgate scandal filthy polluting diesel cars were still nearly 50% of UK new sales. It seemed that despite the revelations diesels would continue command a big share of sales. At the...

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Cutting traffic pollution – for local government

Local Government has a responsibility for ensuring air quality does not breach official limits but compared to city and national governments has a limited toolbox of effective measures at its disposal. Most of these...

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Can you switch from your polluting diesel and cut CO2? Going from tech level zero to level 4.

How easy is it to clean up our emissions? Going from tech level zero to level 4. When I set out to cut my contribution to poisoning our urban air I knew in one sense that I’d made life easy for myself. I’d started with...

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A perplexing question- Why don’t UK air pollution experts like electric vehicles?

10 things that killed diesel and how carmakers made them worse

Why do electric car owners say they would never go back to a petrol, diesel or hybrid car?

Goodbye to the MyUrbanCar App

Cutting traffic pollution – for local government

Can you switch from your polluting diesel and cut CO2? Going from tech level zero to level 4.

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A perplexing question- Why don’t UK air pollution experts like electric vehicles?

10 things that killed diesel and how carmakers made them worse

Why do electric car owners say they would never go back to a petrol, diesel or hybrid car?

Goodbye to the MyUrbanCar App

Cutting traffic pollution – for local government

Can you switch from your polluting diesel and cut CO2? Going from tech level zero to level 4.

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