Fuel Articles

While I’m sometimes dismissive of a handful of new driving regulations, and feel that the authorities are too reliant on using technology to ‘spy’ on us, without discretion, lenience or the ability to put our case, there does come a time when they seem to get things...

A former road safety minister says drug driving is now a ‘hidden epidemic’, with courts convicting almost 20,000 people for driving under the influence of drugs in 2018 alone—around four times as many as earlier years. The appalling new information from the Driver and...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Those five words aren’t to disparage the research relating to global CO2 emissions, but merely to point out that statistics can tell any story you want, providing you ask the right questions, or the right people. ‘If all the world’s...

Depending on what part of the country you live, commute or travel to, you may be aware that purchasing a Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) comes with a few perks; cheap or reduced rate parking, perhaps the option to use bus lanes, maybe congestion-zone or ULEZ charge...

Britain’s roads are among the safest in the world, and crashes on smart motorways are the fault of the person behind the wheel, according to Jim O’Sullivan, chief exec of Highways England. Just a few weeks ago, we came to the same conclusion; a common theme from your...

Most people view yellow box junctions as a revenue generator, and with figures such as £16m in revenue being quoted, it would be hard to disagree. Or how about the near £3m revenue from a single junction in Fulham? Or the £130 fine for 123,071 motorists caught in...

Between Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) and fuel duty, the Treasury typically pockets around £40bn each year, a not insubstantial amount of money, but as the push for greener vehicles gets into its stride, there will very clearly be a hole in that revenue, and it’s one that...

We all witness poor driving every time we use the roads, whether we’re also driving, are on foot, or on our bikes. My kitchen window overlooks a bit of a rat-run and I lose track of the number of drivers passing by clutching mobile phones—particularly delivery...

Last week, we told you that the government were looking to bring forward the ban on the sale of new fossil fuelled cars (as the single, motive power source), from 2040 to 2035, in a bid to show their green credentials. The Transport Secretary stated: “We must go...

When it was announced that the UK would be banning the sale of new cars using only internal combustion from 2040, there was only really one main reaction; outrage from motorists, and outrage from the environmentalists because 2040 was ‘unambitious’. Scotland are...

“Why are BMW drivers not required to indicate?” or even “Why are BMW drivers jerks?”* are just two shocking Google searches that are (apparently) commonly associated with the marque when it comes to online searches. New research has revealed that BMW drivers have the...

A new survey, carried out by Privilege Car Insurance, has been looking into driving habits, behaviours and timings, and while the headline of “We spend nearly two years in our car” is a stretch (we’d have to be driving for nearly 61 years), there are some fascinating...

On the 20th of May 2018, stricter MOT rules came into force, with over 31 million vehicles undergoing the more thorough test over the following twelve months. Data from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) shows that, in the first year of the new MOT’s...

Official data from the Department for Transport shows that fatal accidents on motorways increased by 19.4% in 2018, with 107 deaths from 92 fatal collisions. Isn’t it time that the government admitted to putting finances before lives? Highways England, the company...

Scientists have disclosed their findings on the most and least polluted streets in London and their study shows that people—including some who live in the most sought after areas—are breathing in unsafe amounts of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), a toxic gas from vehicle...

You often hear the phrase that driving is a privilege, not a right, and for 100s of thousands of UK motorists, that privilege has been revoked. Latest research shows that just last year alone, nearly 12,000 new drivers lost their licence under the New Driver Act, and...

Ever had that moment while driving that you’ve heard a car zoom by and heard the loud drum and bass thudding through the closed windows? A new study conducted out by the South China University of Technology and Guangdong University of Technology found that people who...

If you’ve ever happened across a fast food restaurant late at night, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen the ‘yoofs’ congregated there were doing their best to test their handbrakes to the limit, and show off their driving skills to all onlookers. As adults, we...