I’m not really a morning person and my dislike of mornings is intensified on Mondays, so running late I got a lift in from a friend, but this time paid them £5 petrol money – and promised it would be the last time I’d ask!
A team of students from Imperial College has driven an electric car around the M25 twice on a single charge.
It’s big, difficult to manoeuvre and at £500 for a tyre change, expensive to maintain, but what is good for the urban SUV driver must be good for the cyclist wanting to make an impression in the city.
French newspapers this week claim that professional riders have competed in high-profile races using a bicycle secretly equipped with an electric motor and batteries.
It’s the knotty problem wrestled with by cyclists everywhere: You like the idea of owning a £140,000 Porsche GT3 RS, but worry it would mean less time on the bike.