It’s been a big week for electric cars, with the launch of the Nissan Leaf in the UK. It’s a smart business that takes advantage of these green developments, both to help its customers, and advance its own eco-credentials. Hotels are the obvious partners to the electric car (EV) driver. Arrive at the end of… Continue reading
Posts by Gareth Huw Davies
Could the USA be in for a railway revolution?
Anyone who has travelled any distance on the roads in the USA will be be familiar with the intimidating phenomenon of the super sized American truck, powering up behind on their odysseys across the nation. They may also have noticed the alternative transport solution, once marginal but now increasingly relevant. In the US freight trains… Continue reading →
We have ignition, for “one giant leap" electric driving
March 21, the first day of spring, and very appropriate for Britain’s “one small step, one giant leap” moment. Libya and Japan rightly dominate the news schedules, but in the longer perspective we will look back on today for the significance of keys handed over in a Hertfordshire car showroom. Nissan today began deliveries of… Continue reading →
Low-energy homes–old and new
The writer has been a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times Home section. How snug was was your winter? Did your house cope comfortably with the bitter chill of December 2010, or, like most of the rest of us, did you simply crank up the central heating and throw on more blankets? Here are two… Continue reading →
From cat ladders to Bodleian balustrades – company goes with the flow
Think companionways, cat ladders, balustrades, steel bridges and escape stairs. All of them important pieces of metalwork designed to make it easier to move about in buildings today. Flowline’s interest in making useful things out of metal doesn’t stop there. The employees at the new George clothing factory at Lutterworth in Leicestershire now have a… Continue reading →
Time to inform drivers on vehicle emissions besides Co2
More hazardous pollutants from a car exhaust apart from Co2 I live close to a pollution hotspot, and, like many otherwise well-intentioned people I know, I add to that pollution. I don’t drop litter, or pitch trolleys into the canal, or do things I could easily stop. This is everyday, going-about-normal-life pollution I’m talking… Continue reading →