Congratulations Emma. In 1998 I was a Pot Noodle

Autumn. Loving the red, amongst all the green.

Renewables (wind) having a good start to the day.

Fly collection ….

As rental cars go, this Spanish 40,000 mile Clio Turismo 1.0ltr manual, petrol, is ok. It’s a little rough running, especially when cold, it’s not the quietest on the motorway, but it cruises comfortably at 120kph, small enough for tight spaces. Still prefer my i3 EV

It will soon be three years since the Luton Airport fire. There was a lot falsely written and posted about EV‘s, following that event.

I had forgotten that UK fuel prices were also very high, back in 2022. Picture taken in Fareham, 1st July 2022.

30k miles covered in the BMW iX50. Brake pad wear less than 10%. Will take that, as my previous X5 used to manage around 60k miles and then need a set of pads and discs.

Fancy the new BMW M5 with a £25,755 discount?

For some strange reason, I find this live graphic interesting on energydashboard.co.uk/live Nice to see some export.

They are only good as city cars …..

Good to see that wind and solar are delivering a big share of the energy generation, right now. Some people will probably say this isn’t good for us.

Northamptonshire countryside looking wonderful, today.

What a brilliant @davidguetta show at Silverstone, last night.

This 2024 Hyundai Kona EV is growing on me. It has the one of the best air conditioning system I have had in a car, for a long time. Ice cold air, delivered very quickly.

Cloth car seats are SO MUCH NICER in very hot weather. Do we agree?

Just back from Portugal, where I had a very new Peugeot 5008 hybrid as a rental car, covering 500 miles. A big family car, with seven seat possibility. Driving range of around 550 motorway miles. Average 40mpg / 7.1 litres fuel per 100km. Comfortable, good aircon, reasonably quiet on Michelin e-primacy tyres, but under acceleration it was just a bag of nails, in my view ~ noisy, not quick and always holding gear for a while after the acceleration phase, before it settled down. Motorway cruising was very good. In city driving it felt jerky, and seemed to struggle to decide how it should propel itself, especially when hilly. Back in UK, jumped into the Hyundai Kona EV and everything just worked, very smooth and quiet.

Cheapest car rental, ever! 57,42€, final invoice cost. Monday to Saturday, from /back to Lisbon Airport, fully insured with zero excess, unlimited kilometres, via Auto Europe and supplied by Europcar. Upgraded to a spotless, 3000km Peugeot 5008 hybrid.

Porto, Portugal. Where older cars still thrive.