We complain about the price of cars, we complain about the cost of fuel and of insurance but there are even more expenses involved in owning a car. Car maintenance, servicing and repairs are another inescapable financial burden: if you scrimp on one, you could end up paying more for the other. We've collected some great tips on how to avoid paying more than you need to for your car maintenance, services, MOTs and repairs.
The battery is the heart of any electric vehicle. It is also at the heart of many of the challenges facing EVs, as the world's governments try to navigate a route to emissions-free driving. The battery accounts for an astonishing 40-60% of the cost of each vehicle. Batteries are expensive to make and, as they are very heavy, they are also expensive to transport.
We recently surveyed the British public, revealing that a significant 87% of adults believe parents ought to contribute to the costs of their child's driving education. Interestingly, of this majority vote, one in three think it should be an equal, fifty-fifty split between parent and child, while 25% suggest the same approach for purchasing the first car.
Considering the increased focus on health and wellbeing, it is perhaps odd that the driving population remains largely oblivious of many ways in which our health can affect our fitness to drive. Many of us continue to get behind the wheels of our cars when, in reality, it may be neither safe nor legal for us to do so.
ANPR or automatic number plate recognition cameras, like other kinds of CCTV cameras, are proliferating all over the UK. They observe and identify millions of cars a day so any journey of more than a few miles is likely to mean your movements have been recorded.
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