February issue out now

It’s another bright cover this month, but this car still has its fair share of disguise still on it, thanks to Volkswagen’s teaser campaign for its upcoming ID.7. You can find out everything we know about the pure electric large car in the February 2023 issue of Diesel&EcoCar. We’ve also got the first photos of […]

The Extra Mile

Hopefully a few readers are still with us, and possibly some previously uncommitted to eco-driving previously took up the challenge of tackling a familiar, busy, stressful, urban route using the minimal aggression approach we suggested, before the country entered lockdown. Hopefully the results were also encouraging. But with the very best of intentions, you need […]

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

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 up heating the air, the energy dispersed in braking to slow down is turned into […]

The Extra Mile

The old saying is that “a leopard never changes its spots” – by which we mean, with people, in that you cannot change someone’s character or personality. In relation to motoring, it’s a fascinating subject, as I’m sure that we have all come across people with the mildest of personalities in normal life, but who […]

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