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Riding with Ogier

For a moment I think I must have dropped into a parallel universe. This doesn’t happen in the dimension that I know. It’s wet and the car is pirouetting pretty much in its own length...

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Fuel cells: Future or fantasy? Part two

A quick aide-memoire for those who once knew but forgot. While the term ‘fuel cell’ wasn’t coined until 1889 by Ludwig Mond and Charles Langer, it was Sir William Grove who discovered...

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Mission impossible?

I don’t want to resort to sprawling generalisations, but concept car drives suck. Concept cars are meant to look pretty; they are not designed to drive well. I remember going to drive the...

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Fuel cells: Future or fantasy? Part one

For the last 35 years, which is as long as I’ve been writing about them, hydrogen fuel cells have been just around the corner, or as one journalist said, 'they were a decade away twenty years ago…'

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Is bigger always better?

I sometimes think here at Ti we’re in danger of being a little backwards looking. Guilty, perhaps, of a touch of nostalgia; of succumbing to the temptation of thinking that things were...

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Brief encounter

A few weeks back I found myself listening with more than usual interest to Andrew and Dan’s weekly podcast. This was the 79th episode, the one in which they discussed the life and times...

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Mexican rave

I think kidnap was unlikely, but I can’t really be sure. There’s a lot of me to fit in the boot of a car, so any potential ne’er-do-wells might have just looked at my 6ft 4in frame and imagined...

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Nervous tension

Do I join the group of people doing yoga warm up exercises or should I go somewhere private to get the temperatures and pressures up? I can’t decide because my nerves are all over the place...

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