News Archives - October 2011

The industrial designer, artist and architect, Ron Arad has re-interpreted the bicycle wheel in his medium of choice, steel.

Richard Branson has backed a new process devised by a British biochemist that ferments the carbon monoxide from steel mills to produce low-carbon jet fuel.

The average new car sold in Europe last year was 4% more fuel efficient, emitted 4% less CO2 and was 2.5% cheaper in real terms than 12 months earlier.

When car radios first went on sale 80 years ago they cost the equivalent of £1000, but such was their success at distracting from the incessant noise of a long motorway journey or tiresome passenger that they soon became a standard item.

Bike builders RAW have launched their first British-built bamboo mountain bike.