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Insurer thinks outside the green box

 It’s not just car manufacturers that are feeling the need to think green - now it’s the insurers too, as More Th>n car insurance has launched a new eco friendly motoring scheme. Known as ‘Green Wheels’, the service helps drivers assess how their driving affects the environment. It gives them access to information such as how [...]

2008 Budget in brief

A quick recap of the 2008 and its implications.  Company car tax The lower CO2 threshold for qualifying cars reduces to 130g/km from April 2010. Authorised Mileage Allowance Payments (AMAPs) Rates for business mileage in a private car in 2008/9 held at 40p/mile up to 10,000 miles a year, 25p/mile above 10,000 miles. Class 1A NICs Calcualtion is based on 12.8% of [...]

Manx post office goes electric

The Isle of Man Post Office has announced that it is going green. It has included an electric post van on its 99 strong collection and delivery vehicle fleet for the first time ever. According to the Post Office the Mega Multitruck ultra-light electric van has cut fuel costs from 17p to less than two pence [...]

Seminar on Sustainable Fuel.

Date: 17 June 2008 Time: 9.30am - 5.00pm Location: University of Southampton Contact: Roy Williamson - roy.williamson@envirobusiness.co.uk Price: Free This one day seminar is focussed on the use of algae as a sustainable fuel. The event will bring together: - Research expertise in the fields of biology, processing and combustion - SMEs developing and deploying products, for cultivating algae through to oil [...]

North America looks to Europe for green inspiration

 You may be jealous of ‘gas’ prices across the pond where they teeter close to $4 a gallon, whereas we pay nearer $10 a gallon - but it’s the North Americans who are green with envy about our environmental breakthroughs. Green cars are on the mind of North Americans, just as they are throughout the world, [...]

Electric cars from Audi within 10 years

In the next five to ten years we may see zero-emission electric Audi cars on the streets of the UK. The prestigious German car manufacturer believes that diesel and battery technology will dominate in the coming years, Audi’s chairman Welt am Sonntag stated that “Electric cars offer great opportunities, which we have already seized on.”

Cars still being scrapped containing pollutants

There are still more than one million cars a year being scrapped in the UK without first having all pollutants removed. There is currently a loophole in the DVLA’s licensing system that allows unlicensed scrap merchants and car owners to deregister a car, remove metals and any valuable scrap materials and then dump the remaining [...]

Green cars get ready for take-off

 Remember the days when hybrid cars and hydrogen fuel cells seemed like little more than a mythical vision of the space age? Now they’ve come to fruition perhaps we should not be so quick to mock the latest inventions - even if the concept of a ‘flying green car’ will raise one or two eyebrows. At [...]

Dublin to battle congestion by closing streets to private traffic

New proposals could see large areas of Dublin closed to private traffic. In a bid to tackle congestion The Joint Oireachtas Transport Committee has drafted a report recommending that a number of key streets be prioritised for buses. The roads mentioned in the report are O’Connell, Dame and Westmoreland Streets. If this report goes through [...]

NICE Car Company to introduce more, clean car choices in London

London’s electric car company NICE (No Internal Combustion Engine) expects to grow under the new mayor Boris Johnson. The green car maker claims that this is down to a combination of exemption from the capital’s congestion charge, free parking and growing concern among Londoners over the spiralling cost of petrol and diesel. The new mayor of London [...]