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I’ve just spent 2 hours researching and writing an a article for Ctrlaltrefuel website. About milk-floats. Thoroughly enjoyable it was too. God I’m old! 😆 Anyway, coming soon and I’ll let you guess which one of the team wrote this. 🫠

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The danger is if this sets a precedent and others follow. Could there be a start-up advert, will your navigation get sponsored ads, or could your streamed music be interrupted by an advert? Will manufacturers charge an ad free fee? What's the benefit? Graeme www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/tech...

Why BMW's in-car Spiderman ad is a step too far | Autocar

The German firm claims the new Spiderman video it's showing in peoples' cars isn't an ad. It plainly is

autocar.co.uk

We will be setting up a CtrlAltRefuel channel on Bluesky, so if I disappear I’ll be there. But if you love the EV deals, I can still post them, such as this Save £6,526 on a pre-registered Citroen e-C3 for… ⚡️⚡️⚡️🤩 £16,149 🤩⚡️⚡️⚡️ www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/...

2026 Grey Citroen e-C3 for sale for £16,149 in SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE

2026 Citroen e-C3 for sale in SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE from Motorpoint Sheffield - Find your perfect car today with Autotrader

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Remember this “my EV won’t stop” liar? Driver jailed after faking brake failure on motorway Data later proved the car was fine, he never pressed the brakes. The court heard he made it up to avoid car finance payments and even sold the false story to newspapers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Driver jailed for four years after faking brake failure on motorway

Nathan Owen drove his electric Jaguar at up to 86mph and lied to police it was malfunctioning and out of his control

theguardian.com

Nicely put! Lot of attention when new generators get ready before the grid upgrades, but not the other way round. Just up the road in Somerset its the other way about - the grid was upgraded on time for £1bn, but the generation project was delayed years. So the £bn grid investment is sitting idle.

All T-pylons fully wired up in major milestone for connecting Hinkley Point C to grid | New Civil Engineer

The Hinkley Connection Project is National Grid’s scheme to connect the power that will be generated from Hinkley Point C’s two nuclear reactors to more

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