Environmentally Friendly Motoring

06/04/2025

Checked your engine oil level since servicing?
your modern car is using more oil than those twenty years ago.
This vid explains the details, but from 10:52 he explains consumption and manufacturers liability "avoidance"

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30/01/2025

the grape vine hears rumours of considerable Electric Vehicle range developments here in West Sussex
Insiders at both Ricardo and Roll Royce keep quiet

07/10/2018

DieselGate update; Fuel poured onto the recently demoted Audi directors fire, he should but wont burn though.....PG required for this clip

Rupert Stadler getting fired is not the same thing as you or me getting fired. And I suspect he’s having a somewhat easier time in prison than most - even if...

12/09/2018

Ralf Speth said that "newer diesel cars produced by JLR were as green as petrol vehicles."
Wow after twenty years of the Automotive gas installers suggesting this the mainstream auto industry final announces it previous dirty diesel offering.

The chief executive of Britain's biggest carmaker say a "wrong" Brexit would devastate profits and jobs.

07/09/2016

Renault could drop diesel engines. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37287129

Renault, the French car maker, may stop offering diesel engines in most cars sold in Europe ahead of more strict emissions regulations.

26/06/2015

Well a friend found this chart more plausable than the responses from the maindealer.
Those in question weren't from Audi aftersales in Portsmouth, I hasten to add or Nissan Westway in Bassingstoke, Citroen and Peugeot dealers in Cardiff, Worthing, Gatwick, Southampton or Durham,; or Ford in Hayes, Littlehampton, Worthing and York. Jaguar Land Rover in Sussex, Surrey or Hampshire, even Volvo UK. Or any of the dealerships operated by Pendragon, Stoneacre or the Hendy Group. Infact it wasn't any one we have worked for, OK

She continues to love the vehicle and will now get it serviced with a local garage, the concern was of a particulate filter problem, cos shenever gets to run this diesel at light constant loads long enough to clear the soot deposits - now thats it has travelled 40 000 miles.......She is now rather distressed having sold her problem free gas vehicle..

KNOW YOUR CAR WARNING LIGHTS:

07/12/2014

Urban pollution and vehicle particulate emissions in the headlines again, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30368504.
Paris, a bastion of the diesel car, is kicking up a stink about the stink. Is the "Low Emission Zone" ineffective and just allowing London to hide behind its own smokescreen. There are more than 2000 CNG gas powered buses already in France the UK has less than 100 and I'm not sure any operate in London.

The mayor of Paris tells a French newspaper she wants diesel cars to be banned from the French capital by 2020 as part of plans to fight pollution.

20/11/2014

Steaming hot news, there is a (just to clarify 1) BioMethane bus operating in the UK...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-30115137. However in Lille, France, 93% of the cities bus network of 400 vehicles is gas powered. Infact over 30% of that comes from city "green" (and brown) waste converted to BioMethane at the unique Organic Recovery Centre (CVO). Makes the Bristol effort seem like a lonely t**d

The UK's first bus powered entirely by human and food waste goes into service between Bristol and Bath.

03/11/2014

Took a few day to celebrate an old muckers 50th bday. Weather was perfect, food and company a joy, bill for booze requires a remortgage. But this small city has moreenvironmentally friendly cars than I would see in London. The Prius is out numbered by Nissan Leaf's,which pale into insignificance by Hybrid Outlander PHev, but the really hot unitis the Tesla S. And wow does it look the part, swish, capable and big enough for five fat fu**ers.On the coach to the airport, I very nearly got a snap of three of these Tesla S but was asked to move my bag..If you can afford to waste money on a new car get one of these, you will not be disapointed.

04/08/2014

Off now to drag our "shed" and children 600miles to Brittany. Other than these two thing I must remember passport, licience and most importantly the Euro dish LPG filling adaptor......

In addition I nearly had a cardiac earliy, when a camping site wanted £23 to exhange a 6kg Calor bottle, that 12 litres of LPG costing £8.40 of Autogas roady duty (20p/l) and 20% vat. Anyone want to by bottle filling adaptors?

29/07/2014

Our European friends are steeling the march on CNG for vehicle use. see the filling station map http://www.ngvaeurope.eu/search-nearby-by-country.
For comparison England 10 Germany 900.
Apart from station locations, opening hours and accepted payments, the map also has facility to plan a travel route across Europe with a route populated with CNG station