Fuel Articles

Depending on your viewpoint, being told that there’s nearly 900 separate road works planned between now and December 2021, which could lead to thousands of days’ worth of delays, could be a good or terrible thing. Of course, no one likes sitting in traffic...

Heathrow airport had 480,339 aircraft movements in 2018, moving over 80 million passengers to international destinations, and 1,715,440 tonnes of cargo. A typical Boeing 747 aircraft uses approximately one gallon of fuel for every second of flight time,...

To steal a car a generation ago meant a bit of muscle and a tool or two. In fact, in 1992 alone, UK vehicle crime spiked and thieves stole 620,000 vehicles from our roads. Over time, car security has increased but the fight against car thieves is far from...

“The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force”; the legal definition of robbery. ‘Robbery’ perhaps may be a little harsh, although if you consider the threat of having your car clamped, towed away or just...

A report for the Department for Transport, released in November 2018, very clearly stated that reducing speed limits to 20mph does little for road safety or the environment, and in many cases, it can actually lead to greater pollution and a higher number...

Fuel prices have been increasing steadily and rose at their fastest rate in April since 2000 by 5.44 pence per litre for Unleaded. These huge increases are driving up the total cost of ownership for a motorist, combined with new congestion charges, rises...

Electric cars are just a fad – they’re never going to replace the internal combustion engine; history has proven that already – the first electric production vehicle actually pre-dates the accepted 1886 Karl Benz creation ‘Benz Patent-Motorwagen’ by two...

When you’re next driving, what you might think is another lorry passing by could be an undercover police officer in an unmarked heavy goods vehicle (HGV). As part of Operation Tramline, in the last 12 months, police across the country in three so-called...

If you’ve ever watched Top Gear, you’ll most probably have heard them bemoaning Peugeot drivers and Peugeot themselves. One particular skit comes to mind entitled the “Modern Peugeot Drivers Adventure” in which James May and Jeremy Clarkson drive rather...

When Jaguar Land Rover introduced their new I-PACE electric SUV, it was a culmination of fours years’ worth of work, over 1.5 million miles of testing, and hundreds of hours spent in the wind tunnel maximising efficiency, and yet some owners are having...

Remaining untouched for around 70 years, the zebra crossing we know so well might soon appear very different after a road safety experiment in the London borough of Westminster to get drivers to reduce their speed. Although the location wasn’t an accident blackspot...

Using your mobile phone while driving has been illegal since 2003, the laws have been upgraded a few times since then, most notably the doubling of penalties in March 2017; getting caught using your hand-held mobile while driving could see you landed with a £200 fine...

At a time when parking your car is subject to extreme focus, mainly thanks to the ever-increasing parking charges, the House of Commons Transport Committee is to look into different options to potentially stop people from parking on pavements. At first glance, this...