I often wonder, and I know that I’m not the first, what’s going to happen when vehicles are clean? When their emissions output is low, they can no longer be the single biggest factor in air pollution? We know that by 2040, diesel and unleaded car sales...

I’ve been in the automotive business for over thirty years, and when it comes to ‘positive’ news for motorists, that 30+ years of experience leads me to be very cynical; we’re so used to being downtrodden, taxed and made public enemy number one, that when...

In an interview last week with the BBC, Matt Pates, East Midlands regional traffic operations manager for Highways England, claimed that smart motorways were safe, if not safer without the hard shoulder. His comment was met with a howl of derision from various...

As PetrolPrices reported on last year, in a bid for road safety to keep up with modern motoring, from the 1st of July, new electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles (collectively known as ‘alternatively fuelled vehicles’ or AFVs) must come with an Acoustic Vehicle...

As Bob Dylan once wrote, ‘the times they are a-changing’. Like it or not, the internal combustion engine is dying a death. The days of thousands of polluting filling-stations might be over sooner than we thought with plans to build the first UK forecourt...

Last week, we told you how Bristol is looking to ban cars from the city centre, seemingly in a desperate move to avoid paying back £1million of government money; it’s becoming no surprise that ‘radical’ measures are being touted by most authorities as a...

We often see that XYZ Council want to introduce ‘radical’ plans to shake up some process or other, usually some form of taxation, but when does ‘radical’ become ‘desperate’? Bristol City Council is in “desperate need of a strategy to improve its air...