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There are lots of countries where you can only hire automatics, but equally if you don't tick the box for an automatic and just book a car you can rock up and it will be a manual. The last time I hired a car was in Nottingham six months ago, I got assigned a manual Citroen C3. As for jobs my...

My son just got his license and I insisted he learn in a manual. Firstly I think it makes you a much better driver as it requires a better level of coordination, and a more fundamental understanding of how a lot of cars on the road still work. Now those are opinions, but certainly for entry...

I haven't travelled on an Evero, but I reckon part of the issue with some of the newer trains is the colour scheme. When you have the stark white LED lighting having a colour that reflects a warmer tone like the red seats on LNER softens the overall effect. The dark carpets and seats on the...

Fix the seats and 95% of the complaints will go away. I've travelled on the 801s with LNER, 802s with TPE and 810s with EMR. General ambience is good being light and airy and the large overhead bins are a definite plus. The seats on the 810s are a noticeable upgrade on the 801/2s which as a...

A real shame issues persist with these. I had a run on one from STP to Sheffield post Christmas during the WCML blockade and enjoyed it, was definitely an upgrade on the 222s. The MML really seems to have copped the rough end of the pineapple out of all the mainlines in terms of problems with...

Yep, a digital art installation. That location is outside the National Gallery of Victoria

Swanston St in Melbourne is generally regarded as the busiest tram corridor in the world. Peak frequencies average a tram every 70 seconds which is approximately 51tph. See the very informative attached video.

Also because of their limited range they will generally have pretty low mileage for their age, so wear and tear on suspension and other components is often pretty low

There are indeed adaptors available now although they do cost a few bob. They do have a touch screen on the centre console but all of the standard media, climate control and drivers aids all have physical buttons for operation.

Adding thermal management is indeed impractical as it would require retrofitting an entire coolant network system, radiator and pumps. I have owned both a Gen1 and a Gen2 Leaf, both bought second hand. As long as you do your due diligence on the battery condition, and are aware of their...

To be clear it's all Gen1 and Gen2 shaped Nissan Leafs that do not have thermal battery management, which covers a period from 2012 - 2025 so not just the very early ones. They made improvements to the battery chemistry over this period which reduced the effects of thermal stress to some extent...

I suggest you have a look at the electric trucker Youtube channel. Electric HGVs are probably closer than you think

It would be interesting to see the data breakdown by manufacturer, as I suspect that the overall SOH stats are actually pretty heavily negatively skewed because of Nissan Leaf batteries which had no thermal management, and are known to suffer degradation issues from heat and fast charging. They...

Changing a battery in an EV isn't like pulling out a string of AAs and whacking some new ones in. For starters the whole pack is coded to the car so a full pack replacement needs specialist software to do this. Individual cells in the pack can be replaced, but this requires heavy lift kit to get...

In short far lower running and maintenance costs 1772581059 So any car showing a low fuel light, or a range of less than 50 miles on the odometer is a hazard? Please...

I don't know the electronic trick-whizzery of how it's done, but you tap your card and usually if it's over $100AUD (interestingly the limits were adjusted to be more during COVID to avoid touching of the keypad) the machine will then ask you to enter your pin on either the physical or...

So in the UK if you use your bank card for a contactless payment and the value of the transaction is over 100 quid, the machines just reject the payment outright? Weird, in Australia it just asks for your card pin to verify the transaction in such situations. You don't need to insert the chip...

Here's an example, you live in London but have a friend in Manchester who suggests catching up at some point, most likely on evening of the 18th July, but they may have to postpone closer to the date because of work commitments. The earliest you can get away on the 18th July is 16:00. Currently...

Just been on one of my roughly biennial UK visits and from the train journeys that I undertook using long distance operators, the seating (and ride quality) on the Azumas was far inferior to that on the Pendos and Meridians.

As someone who has previously lived in the UK but who now lives abroad, a recent UK trip has made me wonder about whether dynamic pricing encourages people to make speculative or block bookings to potentially save on having to fork out for high priced anytime tickets or short notice fares. The...