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Fuel Duty Is Frozen Again…

October 3, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Thankfully for motorists, fuel duty has been frozen again – for the ninth year in a row.  Whilst this is good news in principle, the fact remains that it costs on average over £70 to fill the tank of a family car.  Most would agree this is a significant amount of money for what is […]

Filed Under: Daily News Tagged With: Car Articles, Costs of using a car, Daily News, fuel, Fuel and duty costs, Fuel costs, Using a car, Using a car daily

Is Wireless Charging Coming For Electric Cars?

April 3, 2016 by Mr Butterscotch 1 Comment

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Motorists buying new electric vehicles (EVs) could benefit from recharging their cars using easy and convenient wireless charging technology in 10 years, reports Go Ultra Low – the government and auto industry-backed communications body. Together with existing cost-saving benefits and the great driving experience, the ever extending range of electric vehicles and ease of wireless […]

Filed Under: Electric Cars Tagged With: Alternative fuel, Denis Naberezhnykh, Electric Cars, Electric vehicles, EV range, EVs, fuel, Go Ultra Low, How to charge an electric car, Hybrid cars, Low emissions vehicles, Poppy Welch, Transport Research Laboratory, TRL, Ultra-Low Emission Vehicle Technoloy, Wireless electric charging

Visiting At Christmas? The Costs Might Add Up…

December 22, 2015 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

New research from the What Car? True MPG team confirms that drivers who need to put in extra miles to visit family and friends over the holidays could face hidden costs. A recent test on a selection of popular vehicles shows that fuel efficiency can be cut by more than 7% when cars are driven with four occupants […]

Filed Under: Buying & Selling, Daily News, Driving Advice, Editorial, Industry News, Money, New Cars, Technical, The Environment Tagged With: Diesel, Fiat 500X, fuel, fuel prices, Jaguar, New Cars, Petrol, Volkswagen Up, What Car?, XE

UK Government Confirms No Tax Rise For Affected VW Vehicles

October 5, 2015 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

The government announced that UK taxpayers will not incur higher Vehicle Excise Duty if their existing vehicles are found to be fitted with illegal software that manipulates emissions tests. Following VW’s admission of using ‘defeat devices’ in diesel cars, there is an ongoing UK government investigation which began last week into the extent of this […]

Filed Under: Daily News, Driving Advice, Editorial, Featured Posts, Industry News, Money, The Law Tagged With: Car Articles, Defeat devices, DfT, DVSA, Engine emissions, EU level action plans, Euro 5 category, fuel, Patrick McLoughlin, VCA, Vehicle emissions, VW, VW Group, VW scandal

Engineering Explained Explores Fuel Additives

May 12, 2015 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

There are a wide variety of products on the market that will claim to improve engine responsiveness, increase horsepowers, increase efficiency and lower emissions. But what do they consist of and do they actually work? I’ve used a few in the past and have had mixed results. So, we at Car Articles turned to science […]

Filed Under: Driving Advice, Editorial, Featured Posts, Featured Videos, Maintenance & Breakdown, Technical, Videos Tagged With: Car Articles, Carbon deposits, Engine cleaning, Engineering Explained, fuel, Fuel additives, Fuel efficiency, Information, Informative posts, Petrol additives

There May Be More Hydrogen Cars After Toyota Opened The Doors

January 9, 2015 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Toyota is opening the door to the hydrogen future, making available thousands of hydrogen fuel cell patents royalty free. Announced at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, this Toyota initiative will spur development and introduction of innovative fuel cell technologies around the world. Toyota will invite royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 fuel cell related patents held […]

Filed Under: Daily News, Editorial, Featured Posts, Industry News, Technical Tagged With: Energy, fuel, Fuel sources, Hydrogen, Hydrogen fuel cells, Hydrogen power, New Cars, Toyota cars, Toyota Mirai, Ways to power cars

Is Leftover Coffee The Biodiesel Of The Future?

July 2, 2014 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Auto Express has covered some fascinating research that indicates a new use for left over coffee beans/grinds – biofuel! Apparently, through a chemical process, any left over coffee grind can be turned in to biodiesel. This is good on two levels. First, it will further reduce dependence on fossil fuels and secondly rather than simply […]

Filed Under: Articles Elsewhere, Daily News, Editorial, Industry News, The Environment Tagged With: alternative fuel sources, Auto Express, Biodiesel, Car Articles, fuel

The 2014 Budget At A Glance

March 21, 2014 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

A number of key announcements impacting on the motor industry were contained in the Wednesday, 19 March 2014, Budget Statement of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Fuel – the Chancellor confirmed his Autumn Statement 2013 announcement that September’s planned 1.6p per litre rise in fuel duty was cancelled. It means that there will be no […]

Filed Under: Daily News, Editorial, Featured Posts, Industry News, Money, The Environment, The Law Tagged With: Car Articles, Car budget, Car fuel benefit charges, Company car tax, finance, fuel, Fuel costs, Money, Road repairs, RPI, the budget, the chancellor, Van benefit charges, VED rates, Vehicle Excise duty

E10 Fuel Is Coming – How Will It Impact You?

February 13, 2014 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Due to EU regulations, so-called ‘greener’ fuel is coming to the UK. Named E10 fuel, it contains 10% bio-ethanol and is being rolled out across the UK as part of the Government’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conforming to the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive. This requires 10% of road transport energy to be […]

Filed Under: Daily News, Editorial, Money, Technical, The Environment Tagged With: Bio-ethanol, Car Articles, Chad Hallett, CO2, crops, E10 petrol, E5 petrol, emissions, Ethanol, fuel, Fuel efficiency, Government policy, New Cars, Petrol, petrol prices, SMMT, society of motor manufacturers and traders', Tailpipe emissions, The Environment, What Car?

Why A Winter Car Health Check Is A Good Idea

September 21, 2013 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

There is never a good time to be stuck in a broken down vehicle. However, I’m sure you’d agree that a worse time is when the wintry weather has come in properly and all you want to do get home to your nice warm house. Well, give a thought then to your car, which may […]

Filed Under: Driving Advice, Editorial, Maintenance & Breakdown, Technical Tagged With: Car checks, Car health, fuel, Maintaining your car, oil, Winter services, Winter servicing

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