How humans communicate with each other has changed a lot in the last decade following the widespread uptake of email, social media, and smartphones. What would have been a lazy half-hour phone conv...
You may have noticed I didn’t submit a column last week. I apologise but while I had every intention of doing so one week and one day ago, circumstances conspired to make my life truly difficult an...
“You’re young and you have no responsibilities; get something mad.” Those were the words of my esteemed colleague, John Simpson, when I made the mistake of announcing to the office that it was prob...
Ford has announced that a new generation of steering technology will become available on their cars next year. Steering used to be simple. You had a stick that had a steering wheel at one end and a...
It had taken the best part of three decades and impending fatherhood for me to realise that I need a two-seater sports car in my life. Admittedly not the most opportune time to begin obsessing abo...
Electric cars are great, aren’t they? They’re quick, easy to drive, affordable to run, and never cause you to queue for petrol in the morning. And if you’ve got a car which rapid charges, you can e...
We all have to travel away from home from time to time, and in today’s modern world of internet-connected everything, smartphone apps and real-time navigation software, travelling has never been ea...
Do you take risks in your electric car? By that, I mean do you take risks when it comes to how far you’re happy driving before you run out of power? In three weeks’ time, I’ll be sitting in my Ni...
How do you commute and how long does it take? More importantly, how much does it cost you? Here in the UK, we have some of the longest commutes of all of our European neighbours. Not in distance p...
My Nissan Leaf has more than 52,500 miles on its odometer, and in the past six years, I'm guessing I must have easily covered twice that at the wheel of a plug-in car. But tomorrow, I'll be makin...