A new study has highlighted which towns and cities recorded the most cases of Blue Badge and disabled parking bay related offences last year, with Milton Keynes topping the charts outside London. Almost 6,000 penalty charge notices were issued to drivers in the Buckinghamshire town for misuse of permits – including displaying an invalid, stolen … Read more
The Ford Fiesta is the most popular car with young drivers but it’s NOT the cheapest to insure: We reveal the top ten cars for cheaper cover The Ford Fiesta is the most popular car for young drivers, data finds However, it isn’t the cheapest to insure with the Citroen C1 taking that spot We … Read more
Electric car charging provision at motorway service areas, on local roads and in rural areas is inadequate and needs to be accelerated as a matter of urgency, the competition regulator has warned on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the public charging infrastructure must be improved ahead of the 2030 ban on the … Read more
A new report claims that electric vehicles are cheaper to own over a period of seven years than an equivalent car with a petrol or diesel engine because they are over £1,300 less expensive to run a year. Popular battery-powered models offer such lower annual running costs that it bridges the premiums drivers pay to … Read more
Daimler, the parent group of Mercedes-Benz, has today outlined its plans to invest more than €40 billion (£34.2billion) between 2022 and 2030 to develop battery electric vehicles and be ready to become an all-electric car maker by the end of the decade. Bosses at the German luxury carmaker said on Thursday it would – with … Read more
Tesla’s Supercharger network have topped a new survey of electric car owners about the best providers for charging their vehicle’s batteries. Of the 1,000 EV owners who use it and completed What Car?’s survey, they rated it very highly for reliability, charging speed, ease of payment and value for money, giving it an overall score … Read more
Tesla will open its network of superchargers to other electric vehicles later this year, Elon Musk has declared on Twitter. Exact details on when the US car firm will make its charging stations available to other manufacturers hasn’t yet been confirmed – and there has been no clarification about which countries will benefit from the … Read more
Rachel Maclean, the Minister for the Future of Transport and Decarbonisation, has hinted that grants to help people buy expensive electric cars will be scrapped Rachel Maclean, Minister for the Future of Transport and Decarbonisation, has dropped a fresh hint that the Government intents to scrap grants to help drivers buy expensive electric vehicles. With … Read more
The sun’s out and for many, the temptation to wind down the car window to feel the breeze with a elbow rested on the ledge for a ‘trucker tan’ bronzing is too much to resist. While most motorists would have done this, a specialist in sports physiotherapy and rehabilitation says it is one of the … Read more
Sparks of burning steel fly as I push the angle grinder deep into the car exhaust. The disk blade slices through metal like a knife through butter. I slash away and then, with a strong tug, the catalytic converter is off. It takes just 56 seconds. I am sawing away under a Toyota Yaris to … Read more