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Check out Bjorn Nylands YouTube channel. He runs all makes of EV down to zero fo see how far they go after tortoise mode.

If you are range aware, you won't be range anxious. When you get down to 20%, use android auto to find a nearby charger.

When you think about it, we live in a miraculous age of innovation (a lot of it born of conflict unfortunately). The 20th century saw the first powered flight, after which we saw more and more milestones broken and within 70 years, men were walking on the moon. Computers, mobile phones which...

The first thing I would say to myself is; "stop screaming. Yes I'm you from the future". Then I would say; "stop crying. Yes you lose your hippy hair . . . deal with it". But seriously, I would tell myself that there is a reason I am the way I am, and in the future Asperger's will be a...

Who is that person narrating the video? What a weird way of talking. As L.P Hartley said in The Go-Between, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there". If you could go back and visit the past instead, what advice would you give to yourself?

And I would imagine any gains in the hybrid accelerating on electric at the start of a long journey, will be lost in having to lug around an electric drive train and battery on that long journey. Edit: Although you do have the extra momentum to keep you rolling further. Hmm, you are right...

Something like this would probably be a better option, although the council wouldn't be able to claim their pound of flesh.

It looks like some enterprising oik at Wandsworth Council has seen a way to generate a bit of extra income from residents.

You could always use Eurostar and have an adventure driving through Europe and beyond. :)

My son got his in the post Friday for his LEAF, £20. I got the email reminder today.

To reduce air pollution, reduce CO2 emmissions and to reduce the cost of motoring. Maybe a drop in the ocean, but the ocean is made up of drops.

TE; yes BG; a letter saying they were late billing so credited me £40. No actual bill though.

John F. Kennedy's most famous quote, from his 1961 inaugural address, is: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." Trump's philosophy is "Ask not what I can do for my country - ask how much I can make before I completely screw it up."

And why regen doesn't work in cruise control . . . they couldn't be arsed to work it out.

The main reason politicians banged on about hydrogen was because they were being lobbied by the oil and gas industry, as most hydrogen is produced by steam reformation of methane.