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Toyota in €1.7m marketing drive
Toyota Ireland has spent €1.7m in the past six months on advertising and marketing in a bid to get motorists to switch to hybrid vehicles. Toyota has also lobbied politicians in a bid to secure Vat relief on company fleets which move over to hybrids as well as an extension of the VRT grant for hybrid vehicles to 2020. As...
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UK Government scheme for scrapping diesel cars
UK scrapping scheme for diesel cars Drivers in the UK are being urged by their Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling to take a long hard look at their options before buying diesel cars He made the comments after the UK Government published its latest plans for cutting urban air pollution. This highlights the real possibility that the UK will soon restrict...
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Norway wants to ban petrol and diesel cars
Norway to ban diesel and petrol cars Norway is a huge proponent of electric vehicles. Not only does it offer massive tax breaks to EV buyers, but last year, portions of the Norwegian government proposed seeking an all-out ban on all petrol and diesel-powered cars by the year 2025. Although Norway seemed to be going in that direction last year,...
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Renault, Nissan and Transdev to develop driverless vehicle fleet system
Driverless vehicle fleet system Renault, Nissan and Transdev have joined forces in a new alliance to jointly explore development of mobility services with fleets of electric driverless vehicles for public and on-demand transportation. We are all familiar with Renault and Nissan but some may not be too familiar with Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev. They are a French-based international private public...
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Will Electric Vehicles Drive Mechanics Out of Business?
Electric Vehicles could drive traditional mechanics out of business Traditionally, when a motorist went to a mechanic shop, the mechanic had to figure out what was wrong with the car first from experience and then repair what was wrong. Today, things are rapidly changing. Now mechanics just insert an OBD-II scanner and it tells you what to replace. (Onboard Diagnostics...
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Motorists are being warned of motor tax email scam targeting bank details
Motor tax email scam targeting customer bank details The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport have become aware of fraudulent emails purporting to come from the Department seeking vehicle details and billing information from vehicle owners in connection with their last motor tax transaction. Motorists paying their motor tax online have been warned to be on their guard for fraudsters...
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All out and indefinite bus strike looming
Bus strike looming Hundreds of thousands of commuters are set to be hugely inconvenienced and left without a bus service from next week as workers plan to stage an all-out strike. Bus Éireann unions announced the indefinite strike which will take place from next Monday 06 March 2017. The strike will impact on services across the country after management...
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Insurance costs to keep rising according to insurance company
Insurance costs to keep rising to pay for awards warns FBD boss. Ireland’s motor insurance costs will keep rising due to payouts connected with the compensation culture here, according to FBD chief executive Fiona Muldoon.Although the pace of increase has moderated recently, motor insurance premiums are set to be hiked again by the stock market-listed insurance company this year. The...
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Will Autonomous Cars of the Future be Gyms on the Go?
Will Autonomous Cars of the Future be Gyms on the Go? Have you ever thought about what you could do in an autonomous vehicle if you didn’t have to drive? Well, using your car for something other than just driving is not that far away and there will be endless possibilities opened up to what people can do behind the...
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Traffic chaos expected if cars are banned from quays
Traffic chaos on the quays Dublin City Council is planning to ban cars and lorries from three of the north Liffey quays. In order to accommodate additional bus and bicycle lanes This will cause massive traffic congestion all over the north side of the city if the ban is implemented. Some local residents are fearful that all the traffic which...