Grey Is The Colour - 1st February 2022

GREY IS THE MOST POPULAR COLOURGrey is the most popular colour chosen by British new car buyers for the 4th year in a row. You can read the release from the SMMT here and analysis from Autocar here.COUNCILS COULD ENFORCE MOVING TRAFFIC OFFENCES FROM JUNECouncils in England and Wales could be able to follow the examples of London and Cardiff and enforce some traffic offenses from June. They will have some hoops to jump through though. You have read more here.STREETLIGHTS TO GAIN MORE TECHSome streetlights could gain additional tech to help aid car to car communication as part of their scheduled refurbishment. More information about this here.CALLS FOR AUTONOMOUS CAR USERS TO BE USERS, NOT DRIVERSA report on legal changes required to enable autonomous vehicles in the future has called for four significant law changes. You can read more in the BBC article here.ALLIANCE OUTLINE LATEST EV PLANRenalut-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance has outlined its plans for 35 new EVson 5 platforms across the next few years, but we won’t see them all in Europe. The Autocar story is linked here.BENTLEY RECEIVES SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT BEYOND 100Volkswagen Group is investing heavily in 5 new electric Bentley models and refurbishment of the Crewe factory. More here from evo magazine.ALL CURRENT ROLLS-ROYCE MODELS TO GO ELECTRICIn an unsurprising move,Rolls-Royce has announced that all their current models will be EVs by 2030. More from Autocar here.HEALTH WARNING ON FRENCH CARSThe French government plans to mandate that a percentage car adverts is given over to a warning panel promoting alternative transport methods. To find out more, here’s the article from treehugger.com.DAIMLER TRUCK SEES SIGNIFICANT SALES INCREASE IN 2021SMMT commercial vehicle registrations figures for 2021 haven’t been released yet, but Daimler, globally, sold 20% more vehicles in 2021 than 2020. You can find out more here.As promised, here’s the additional story about Daimler teaming up with Blackrock Renewable Power in tthe US to build a network of CV refuelling and recharging stations.If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCASTNNCN: VOLTA ZERO ELECTRIC TRUCKA slight tangent to the usual NNCN story, but the Volta Zero will be out and about in Central London very shortly. More about that, here.NNCN: SKODA ENYAQ COUPE vRSSkoda’s revealed its first hot EV. Find out more here.LUNCHTIME READ: RIVERSIMPLE UPDATENews about the hydrogen vehicle developer Riversimple has been short for a while now. In this Autocar article they give an update on their plans and development progress.LIST OF THE WEEK: UK’s BEST DRIVING TUNNELSAlfa Romeo has compiled a list of the UK’s best-sounding road tunnels. You can read the list here and there’s YouTube playlist of audio clips here.AND FINALLY: MAKE YOUR OLD LAND CRUISER NEW AGAINIf you’re in a rush to update your Land Cruiser and you’re worried about the wait for a new one, as covered in last week’s show, then this Jalopnik article tells you all you need to know about transforming the outside of your Cruiser from old to new.REAR VIEW PODCASTDon't forget the archive of the interview show from the team at Motoring Podcast, Rear View, where we talk to fascinating people from the motoring universe. To go listen to the episodes already released on Apple Podcasts click here.TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ALAN AND ANDREW...To get in touch with Alan via TwitterTo get in touch with Andrew via TwitterTo get in touch with the Motoring Podcast via TwitterTo follow the Motoring Podcast on InstagramTo watch the Motoring Podcast on YouTube