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After The Mayor of London confirmed that as of 3 January 2012 the Low Emission Zone will affect larger vans, minibuses, 4x4s, caravans and other specialist vehicles, I started receiving phone calls and emails from worried off-roaders with a question: “Am I banned from entering London?”
Being myself a Land Rover person, I had to investigate this. First things first – the Low Emission Zone or LEZ is a new initiative aiming to keep the old fuming diesels out of the Capital and Greater London altogether.
There’s nothing bad with a diesel …
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Environmental activists often accuse Formula 1 of being too unfriendly to the planet and polluting the air with CO2 and other stuff.
An F1 car achieves fuel economy (or the lack of it) of only 3mpg, which is worse than even a Lamborghini.
Slowly but steadily F1 is getting greener. A few years ago they decided to scrap the 3-litre V10 engines and replace them with 2.4-litre V8. Well, those who like big engines will
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No I haven’t gone off my mind. It’s a totally relevant question. There are people investing in gold, in crops, in fuel… Yes, in fuel – apparently fuel and energy is the best market to be in. And what “fuel” do electric cars use? Batteries based on lithium compounds.
One tonne of lithium carbonate used to cost around $4000 before the mass production of electric cars started. By the end of this year, the price can reach $6000.
Global production of lithium was estimated around
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Ok, yes, I’ll fess up, I am a bit biased on diesels – I have been driving them for all my life. They are as flexible as possible for an internal combustion engine to be.
You’re not limited to the fossil diesel fuel. I’ve driven a car on recycled fish-and-chips oil for a while
Rudolf Diesel – the inventor of the engine went literary nuts about his invention… I mean he used
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One of the biggest issues with electric cars is that recharging the batteries takes so much time. Using a normal wall socket you’d need anything between 4 to 8 hours to be ready for another 100 miles. No wonder the fan base of electric cars is growing so slowly. No, actually, the main issue with today’s batteries is at the core of their design. They’re simply built in a wrong way. When we look at the energy storage and management system of an electric car, the bulk of it does …
