Articles by: Richard Borges

Road Safety

Obscured road signs: What to do and how to reduce risk

Breakdown and road safety organisation GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging drivers to report any road signs hidden by trees or bushes.
Cars

Green vehicles cheaper than petrol

Research shows that over the lifetime of a car electric vehicles work out at around £107 cheaper per year than petrol or diesel equivalents
Other

Lockdown creates learner driver backlog

A recent poll of FirstCar’s readers showed that over half of those learning to drive stayed off the roads during lockdown, even shunning private practice with parents
Business

AA Driving School adds hybrid tuition vehicle to fleet

The AA Driving School is expanding its fleet to include a mild hybrid option for the first time, as part of a new franchise package for driving instructors.
Business

Driving lessons in Wales set to restart

July 27th marked as the restart date for lessons in Wales as Scotland still waits
Business

The AA acquires Midrive.com

The AA will operate the MiDrive website, but the pupil and driving instructor app will cease.
Cars

UK one of cheapest places to run an electric vehicle, as CCC report pushes for greater uptake

The UK has been revealed to be amongst the cheapest places to run an electric vehicle in a new study from Uswitch
Teaching & Training

UK’s learner drivers will lose almost £10k daily until driving tests restart later this month

Official figures reveal that learner drivers across the UK lost a total of £826,551 in just 90 days through expired theory test certificates as driving tests in the UK were postponed from March 23 2020, as the country announced its lockdown in response to COVID-19.
Fuel

AA Fuel report for June

As more cars hit the road unleaded prices have gone up 1.3p, from 106.7 p/litre last month to 108.0 p/litre now.

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