The Extra Mile

Eco driving, driving for economy, getting an extra few miles out of every gallon – call it whatever you wish, but what’s it really all about? What can you really get out of it, apart from maybe saving, at best, a couple of hundred pounds on fuel each year? The whole reasoning behind it fails […]

The Extra Mile

The transition from winter to spring is historically a cheerful time for motorists, as washing, and maybe polishing, the car again become possible. And motoring trips become more pleasurable, without the threat of seriously adverse conditions – albeit that February and March can have some pretty nasty late winter weather up their sleeves! But it’s […]

The Extra Mile

Well, we’re into 2020, and the days are getting longer, but the worst of the winter weather often hits in January and February, which are usually also the least sunny months of the year. February traditionally serves up the lowest daily minimum temperatures, with the most days of air frost. Engines take much longer to […]

The Extra Mile

It’s seemingly becoming an all-electric world, so let’s take a look at e-bikes, or pedal assist electric bicycles, which are a growing feature of the British transport scene. If you’re an eco-minded motorist, they should interest you, as an efficient method of independent local transport in place of a car, whilst people of all ages […]

Extra Mile

If this page is about eco driving – meaning economical and ecologically supportive – then it has to be as much about the cars that we can buy, and we choose to buy, as it does about how we drive them. In the few years since Dieselgate, we diesel drivers have had to accept a […]

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