£5,000 grants for electric cars start January 2011
The Department for Transport will from January 2011 provide grants worth £5,000 against the cost of a fully electric or plug-in hybrid car.
The Department for Transport will from January 2011 provide grants worth £5,000 against the cost of a fully electric or plug-in hybrid car.
If traffic congestion was an Olympic discipline then London, with its average speed of around 12mph, would be favourite for gold in 2012. As things stand, the city will need to employ creative solutions to avoid traffic chaos during the Olympics in 2012 according to the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).
A designer has used off-the-shelf electronics to create a cycling jacket with built-in indicator lights that are operated by a switch on each cuff.
The latest designs of torch that project GPS mapping information onto any surface pave the way for bicycle-mounted sat navs that project route details onto the road ahead.
A new version of the award-winning GoCycle electric bicycle is to be sold without a motor or battery and pitched to cyclists who, according to the designers, “don’t mind breaking a sweat on their way to work.”