Significant rise in motorists breaking 60mph speed limits on rural roads
There has been a significant rise in the proportion of drivers who admit to speeding on 60mph rural roads where more deaths occur than on any other road type, new RAC data has found. Nearly half (48%) of the 3,102 drivers questioned for the RAC Report on Motoring say they have driven faster than the […]
FairCharge and RAC call for electricity wholesale price to be decoupled from gas to cut EV charging costs
EV campaign group FairCharge and the RAC – a founding supporter – are today calling on the Government to underline its support for the switch to electric vehicles by decoupling the wholesale price of electricity from gas, something which would immediately reduce the cost of charging EVs. They say the current high wholesale electricity price […]
Seven out of ten want motorists think it’s driver’s responsibility to ensure seat belt compliance
68% of motorists believe drivers should be responsible for ensuring all their passengers wear seatbelts. The RAC has published research released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the law to make seatbelt wearing obligatory. Currently, drivers only have responsibility to make sure they and any children in their vehicles are restrained properly – with […]
Cost of rapid charging EV rises 50% – but home charging still “great value”
The cost of using publicly accessible rapid and ultra-rapid chargers – which a driver taking longer trips beyond their electric car’s range depends on – has risen by 50% since May, according to new data from RAC Charge Watch. It now costs an average of 70.32p per kilowatt hour to rapid charge on a pay-as-you-go […]
EVs take largest share of new car sales
The UK new car market grew 23.5% in November to 142,889 registered units in the fourth consecutive month of year-on-year growth, with newly registered battery electric vehicles up 35.2% to represent more than one in five new cars. New figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show the growth delivered the best total […]
Research suggests drivers are avoiding inside lane on smart motorways over safety fears
Half of drivers say they frequently or occasionally avoid using lane one on all lane running smart motorways. The RAC, which carried out the research, says this is “a revelation that completely undermines the very reason so many hard shoulders have been permanently turned into running lanes: to increase road capacity”. The RAC spoke to […]
Six-in-10 drivers think the state of local roads has got worse in the last year
Six-in-10 drivers (60%) believe the condition of local roads they use regularly is worse than a year ago, with a similar proportion (55%) complaining the standard of pothole repairs is – at best – ‘poor’, new RAC data* has found. Only 4% think the state of the local roads in their area has improved in […]
Expansion of London’s ULEZ boosts TfL’s income by almost £100m
The RAC says the expansion of London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone to cover a much larger area has generated an estimated £93.6 million of additional revenue from drivers of non-compliant vehicles having to pay £12.50 a day. As the first anniversary approaches, it has analysed official Transport for London data which shows that since the beginning […]
RAC launches connected car solution aimed at lowering fleet costs
The RAC has announced it is offering businesses and fleet operators a flexible and easy means for reducing vehicle running costs with the launch of ConnectOne, its new connected vehicles product. It says that, rather than the expense and complexity of traditional telematics services that effectively involve ‘hard-wiring’ units into vehicles, users simply plug the […]
UK “near bottom” of European countries acting to ease fuel price burden
The UK is one of the European countries that has done the least to support drivers with rocketing pump prices, according to new RAC Europe data analysis. It says this means UK drivers to pay as much as 20p more per litre of petrol than drivers in France. Out of 13 EU countries that have […]