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I took a picture of London from the top of the North Downs in 2017 after I was so struck by the visibility of the pollution hovering over the city. Last week I stopped again at the same spot and took roughly the same photo.
Continue reading...I've taken my Tesla to the Dartford Service Centre today to have my camera "calibrated". This is needed because I had to replace the windscreen before Christmas after a stone cracked the glass (for the second time in as many months!) The windscreen was replaced…
Continue reading...I travel most months to the Norfolk coast where our cottage does not have off-street parking and I cannot therefore charge my car overnight. As it's about 150 miles away I need to charge while I'm there in order to have enough charge to get…
Continue reading...I owned my Mercedes E Class estate for nine years and drove it 116,067 miles. I put 14,822 litres of diesel into the tank over that time at a total cost to me of £20,470 or thereabouts. Much worse than that, though, is that over…
Continue reading...Today's 300 mile journey to Norfolk and back gave me a chance to test the latest over-the-air software update 2019.40.2.1. This one was meant to bring more confident automatic lane changes among a few other things. My experience today was pretty mixed. Navigate on autopilot…
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