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Parents who use second hand car seats could be putting their children at risk Enfield Council has warned.
Chris Bond
Parents who use second hand car seats could be putting their children at risk Enfield Council has warned.
The local authority is concerned that families looking to save money will buy cheaper second hand baby and child seats without knowing their history or whether they have been damaged in an accident.
Recent research carried out by the Department for Transport showed that 30 per cent of consumers surveyed said that the availability of public charging points put them off buying an electric vehicle. Two leading renewable organisations have therefore formed a partnership to help overcome this major obstacle to buying an electric vehicle.
Renewable energy company Ploughcroft and charitable trust Zero Carbon World are working together to make charging stations more accessible to consumers.
Zero Carbon World set out to address this by giving away 1,000 free charging stations to UK businesses within the hotel and leisure industry, providing electric vehicle owners with a much greater choice of charging locations. The organisation’s founder Kevin Sharpe is passionate about the fact that the future of motoring should lie in electric vehicles.
Scotland’s Bridge of Weir Leather Company has been chosen as interior material supplier of choice to the critically acclaimed INFINITI EMERG-E concept car, revealed to the world for the first time today at the Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland.
Chosen for its unique brand of Low Carbon Leather, Bridge of Weir has supplied two grades of soft leather, in black and metallic champagne colours, to adorn the INFINITI EMERG-E interior’s characteristic flowing lines and sculpted edges. As a zero-emissions plug-in hybrid, the low carbon ethos shared by both INFINITI and Bridge of Weir made the fine Scottish leather a perfect fit for the Japanese premium brand’s most exciting design to date.
The LC Super Hybrid has been conceived by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) to show that significant CO2 reduction can be achieved through electric hybridisation at low voltages (12-48 volts) using the latest lead-carbon batteries. The production-ready technology offers the potential of a mass market, petrol-powered, large family car with superb drivability, impressive performance and excellent 5.6 litres/100km (51mpg) fuel economy achieved at substantially lower cost than an equivalent diesel model. The low voltage technology enables aggressive yet near-term down-sizing and down-speeding of existing engine families.
New concept car will debut at Geneva Motor Show. Inspiring design and innovative powertrain to make i-oniq a show star. The most powerful demonstration of Hyundai’s ‘New Thinking’ to date
The first image of Hyundai’s new i-oniq concept car has been released today, showcasing new technology and design which present an impression of the company’s future thinking.
The i-oniq is an electric sports hatchback with a range-extending petrol engine. Intended to convey the latest thinking from Hyundai’s designers and engineers, the i-oniq evolves the company’s fluidic sculpture form language and represents bold ‘New Possibilities’ with its futuristic powertrain.
