Eight of the UK’s major car brands with domestic manufacturing facilities – Aston Martin, BMW Mini, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren, Nissan, Toyota and Vauxhall – united on the eve of this week’s Paris Motor Show – to promote the strength of the UK automotive sector to a global audience. Joined by Trade Minister […]
Fully autonomous cars will account for half of all UK new car sales in 25 years, with increasing degrees of autonomy ranging from cruise control to partial self-drive automation adding to traditional vehicles and over eight million connected cars on the roads able to communicate with each other and the surrounding infrastructure. That’s according […]
Motorists caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving will face much tougher penalties than currently, it has been reported. The government, it is suggested, is planning to double the current punishment of a £100 fine and three points on the driving licence of the offender. What’s more the potential new minimum fine of […]
The illegal use of handheld mobile phones is at epidemic proportions with an estimated 11 million motorists admitting to making or receiving a call while driving in the last 12 months and a shocking five million saying they had taken photos or videos while at the wheel of a moving vehicle. Research for the […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan seems certain to press ahead with expanding and introducing earlier than previously announced the capital’s planned Ultra-Low Emission Zone and implementing a major early crackdown on the most polluting vehicles to clean up the city’s ‘filthy’ air. His plans have been backed by Londoners in record numbers – 15,000 – […]
The government has been urged to introduce a wide-range of incentives to encourage corporate take-up of ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs). The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA has called on the government to: •Introduce a workplace charging point grant scheme for plug-in vehicles, there is already one in place for home charging points […]
More than half of businesses say they are concerned about their company drivers being distracted by in-car technology with the introduction of connected cars to their fleets, according to new research by RAC Business. The survey, which highlighted employers’ attitudes towards increasing connectivity in business vehicles, found 51% were concerned about their drivers being […]
Local authorities and car park operators can now set individual parking tariffs according to the CO2 emissions of vehicles, enabling them to offer lower parking fees or even free parking for drivers of ultra-low emission vehicles. The new feature has been developed by parking technology business APT Skidata and uses automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) […]
Drivers who use their mobile phones as satellite navigation devices risk being banned from driving, police chiefs have warned. Tougher penalties, which came into force in April, were intended to clampdown on drivers using their mobile phones to make calls and send text messages while at the wheel. However, drivers have now been warned that […]