Very exciting to hear from Tom Forth at Data Driven today! I did have flashbacks to waiting for buses up to Headingley though 😂

And, with my UBDC hat on, having publicly available historical bus location data would be great!!!

Tom Forth doing Real Travel to Work times at RAC Foundation #DataDriven

A Day of Data at The RAC Foundation , #DataDriven

.RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding is speaking at the #EV infrastructure summit at KPMG UK this morning.
At least he's got something to say.
Yesterday we published a study on how poor mobile phone coverage can impact public recharging racfoundation.org/wp-content/upl… Ivo Wengraf (https://weird.autos/@iwengraf)

Thanks Times Radio for having RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding on this morning to talk to Calum Macdonald about the less than perfect #EV charging experience caused by patchy mobile signal coverage. Listen at 02:56.00
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Ivo Wengraf (https://weird.autos/@iwengraf) #EV s

Poor phone signal is stopping you from charging your EV thismon.ee/a/13275313 via @ThisIsMoney

2/3s of the most common #EV chargepoints have limited 4G mobile phone coverage making it potentially hard for drivers to pay for 'fuel'
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There are solutions:

Poor mobile phone coverage stops drivers charging electric cars telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…
The Telegraph Breaking News picks up on our research on the poor mobile phone network coverage affecting #EV recharging. racfoundation.org/research/envir… Ivo Wengraf (https://weird.autos/@iwengraf) Tim Chatterton

RAC Foundation/ADEPT: Record result in UK bridges poll disq.us/t/4nmofs2
Thank you ADEPT for helping with the research & to the 201 out of 208 GB local highways authorities who supplied data Local Government Association (LGA) Tim Chatterton Road maintenance goes beyond filling potholes.

We have updated the #GreenFleetIndex here at the RAC Foundation

As of Q3 2023 3.12% of UK car miles were by zero emission (at tailpipe) vehicles - up from 2.87% in Q2. ZEVs are only 2.6% of the car fleet - so they are driving further than the average
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🚨NEW: RAC report shows more than one in six jobs being advertised in the UK requires applicants to be able to drive. Over a third of care worker job ads say applicants must drive.

Yet the mileage rate set by HMRC has remained unchanged for over a decade. #UpTheMileageRate

New RAC Foundation report out today.

More than 1 in 6 jobs advertised in the UK requires ability to drive.

100% of driving instructors, 67% of plumbers, 59% of estate agents and auctioneers and 34% of care workers and home carers.

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Could the cost of car insurance finally be easing after such relentless rises? Ivo Wengraf (https://weird.autos/@iwengraf) Tim Chatterton #CostOfLivingCrisis ABI

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We are looking for a Junior Policy Officer to join our team!

Application deadline: 1 March
Starting date: 1 April

More info fiaregion1.com/about-us/oppor…

#hiring #jobs #brusselsjobs

📢 Our new report 'Data Linkage in Road Safety' has been published which explores the impact of enhanced data sharing on road safety and health outcomes. It concludes with a call to action for policymakers and professionals. Pls share. racfoundation.org/media-centre/j….

Complained to Octopus Energy late Nov. Other than 1 missed call and a robo-email asking me not to go to ombudsman, I’ve had no signs of life from them, for a problem that’s gone on 2+ yrs and been with them as a formal complaint for 8+ wks. Is everything ok over there, Greg Jackson ?

This was very sad news. Richard collaborated with the Foundation on a number of projects, particularly speed cameras. Some challenged his findings but no one could dispute his integrity or commitment to road safety and protecting lives. Elizabeth Box Ivo Wengraf (https://weird.autos/@iwengraf)

'Electric car prices to fall in UK amid competition from Chinese companies' independent.co.uk/climate-change…
BYD already sells vehicles in the UK though the most common (as of end of Sept 23) is a bus rather than a car:
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(Another) pivotal year for electric cars in the UK. 993,216 pure battery-electrics on the road at the end of 2023. Probably more than 1 million at the end of Jan. But by the end of 2024? Track progress here...
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New inflation data out today. Changes in car insurance and tax have been so great, that to fit it all on the same graph, it basically makes overall inflation look like it has been more or less flat over the past 10 years. racfoundation.org/data/cost-of-m…