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In the 90’s only 33% of those over 70 had a driving licence, and now, 20 years later that figure has doubled with last year 67% of people aged 70 or older holding a driving licence. Alongside that, over 113,000 90-year-olds hold a valid driving licence and...

We recently told you that government ministers were looking for the link between outdated fossil-fuelled vehicles, and super clean, modern vehicles; the link they found was brakes & tyres – the ultimate saviour of all road transport air pollution problems (the...

There were over nine million Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) fines issued by local councils in 2018, for offences including parking, misusing a bus lane or box junction, and illegally turning left/right. These fines amounted to just over £326m. With London, or parts of...

Passing your driving test is a rite of passage for lots of young (and often older) people and you can’t help but feel thrilled when you get hold of your licence. The independence to go where you want, when you want, is a huge motivator for learning to drive—whether...

Nextbase, a manufacturer of dashcams who pioneered and funded the not-for-profit database, launched The National Dash Cam Safety Portal (NDCP) July 2018 offer an easy way for motorists to pass on footage of unlawful actions on the road that may act as evidence to...

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 will be...

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...

Research from By Miles, a ‘pay-by-mile’ motor insurance provider, shows that your postcode can have a big impact on how much you pay for every mile you drive. In a world where we’re encouraged to ditch the car, part of the reason some drivers aren’t...

In the news this past week has been a lot of talk of net-zero emissions and new targets in place for the UK. Here, we’re going to go over what these mean, mainly for forecourts and motoring, and look at what life in 2050 could look like. There looks to be...

For those of you that follow the F1, you’ll know that we had a bit of controversy at the last race, when it was deemed that Vettel deliberately went a little wide in a bid to stop Hamilton from passing him after a minor trackside excursion. The stewards...

Love them or loathe them, smart motorways seem to be here to stay. Their electronic overhead gantries give you important information such as an upcoming variable speed limit or a lane closure—marked with a red ‘X’. But instead of moving to another lane, as...

Research shows the average UK motorist drives 25 miles a day, so most drivers of electric vehicles (EVs)—whether that be ‘pure’, hybrid, or another electric variant—charge their cars at home, but almost three-quarters use hazardous methods, says a leading...