How to change your driving technique and tinker with your car to save on fuel
Shed weight, go slow and be gentle on the pedals. That is how you can cut your fuel bill by hundreds each month, according to the federal government’s National Fuel Security Plan website. But what savings can be made, realistically, short of buying a new car? Anywhere between 10 per cent and 30 per cent, […]
How to build your own electric car for £10,000
During the week, Tom Cheesewright advises the likes of Nasa. Weekends, though, are more down to earth: scavenging car breakers’ yards and trawling the internet looking for discarded first-generation hybrid electric car parts. It’s because he’s building an electric vehicle (EV) on his drive in a Manchester suburb, and fabricating parts for it in a […]