Like most British electric car drivers, I’m mainly a charge at home sort of person and usually stick to my car’s known safe radius of action. In fact, something like eighty to ninety per cent of all electric car charging…
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Don’t end up on the naughty list this Christmas
Christmas can be a hectic period for everybody. Running and rushing around, panic buying, darting from one Christmas party to another. Whilst we would always advocate enjoying the festivities to the max, it is, unfortunately, a time that we see…
Bright Spark
Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. Everyone knows the old rhyme about Guy Fawkes’ foiled scheme to blow up Parliament in 1605, but motor industry executives may in future have more cause to remember, remember the…
Stopping and reporting an accident
It is probably one of a motorist’s worst fears, particularly if you are a new driver, to be involved in an accident. When it happens, panic often sets in and many motorists are not aware of exactly what is required…
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…
Bright Spark
From the very beginning, Tesla has set the pace in electrification. Even back in 2008, a few years before the established car makers launched their first eighty-mile EVs, the original Tesla Roadster was capable of covering 200 or more miles…
Doctor Diesel
Looking after a fine Patriot As a regular subscriber to Diesel Car for over 14 years, I would be much appreciative of your advice. My 2007 Jeep Patriot, which is powered by a VW 2.0 TDI PD engine, has always…
The Extra Mile
If you’re anything of an enthusiast of driving for economy, and a keen fan of this column, you’ll know that the energy in the fuel we use is dispersed as heat, in one form or another. Overcoming air resistance ends…
Driving abroad post-Brexit
With Brexit looming, motorists should be aware that the rules for exchanging UK driving licences will change, if or when the UK leaves the EU. UK licence holders living in the EU, EEA or Switzerland If you’re a resident in…
Bright Spark
Electric conversions of classic cars have been a part of the electric car scene almost from the start. The appeal is obvious. Interest in older cars is at very high levels, with classic car events such as the Goodwood Festival…