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Mild hybrids are good for reducing pollution in heavy traffic in a built up area. The battery and motor add weight, and add quite a lot more complexity on top of the engine, so the benefits in CO2 emissions and running costs are modest. Plug in hybrids have a longer range on the battery. They...

I think its this guy https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/cannabis-supply-was-not-a-commercial-enterprise-wick-cour-280229/

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Stena Line has a flash sale of £15 tickets for foot passengers

Today, I saw am M registration Mk1 Transit pickup. It had pleasantly scruffy red paint, a bit like this one from Wikimedia

It reminds me of

They know the day when you will check out, but not the time. The cleaners will be most efficient if they can move along a corridor, rather than having to clean rooms on different floors because someone has booked early check in to a specific room.

good point.

There is a 3 hour excursion by minibus for €23

https://www.sncf-reseau.com/medias-publics/2026-03/atlas_reseau_ferre_2026_0.pdf is an updated map from SNCF. Its a 49 page PDF file with 1:850,000 scale rail maps of France. They have all the stations, and light shading for the topography

If the 480 mile range is the WLTP value, and you drive to Heathrow on a motorway, you're unlikely to make it without charging, certainly not in cold weather. https://ev-database.org/ has values which are likely to be closer to the real world range. The Mercedes WWW site says: For example, a...

Table NTS0904 from the government National Traffic Survey surveyed about 8,000 drivers and reports their annual mileage as a percentage in different bins. The most common bin is from 5000 to 6999 miles per year, which is the "5k-7k" column in the table below. Year 0-0.5k 0.5k-1k 1k-2k 2k-3k...

Ashwell and Morden is tricky politically because the station is in Cambridgeshire but Ashwell is in Hertfordshire. The BBC reports that an underground cable for about a mile between a solar farm in Anchor Lane Farm, Newnham Drove Burwell, Cambridge and Burwell substation "contributed to the...

I saw a post from someone got a fine of €50 for each of 3 travellers the other day for getting on a TGV from Paris to Strasbourg without first toggling the journey on in the app. From the sounds of it, they might have had a single €50 fine, but arguing meant they got the charge for each traveller.

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/ lets you plot graphs with how many of specific makes and model of cars are licensed or have a SORN registeration. This shows plots for a Renault Megane Privilege and a Ford Focus Zetec. The curve profiles are similar, but the number of registered Meganes has...

If you treat a car as a software package running on a custom computer which happens to have some wheels, then the equivalent is user testing.

My KIA EV3 has a setting with 4 levels for the distance to set for the adaptive cruise control. 1 sets the closest distance, 4 the furthest. When its set at 2 on a motorway, it gives a 2 second gap. The higher settings aren't good on a twisty road if you follow a car that is going slower than...

The suspension on a 379 seems to be less prone to violent lurches than a 387 when going across the fens.

You can get a pre-registered 2025 Dacia Spring with a 75 registration number and delivery miles for £9190 https://www.vertumotors.com/used-car/3999728/dacia-spring-27kwh-expression-65-48kw-5dr-auto-electric-hatchback/