bus Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/bus/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:44:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 More motor vehicles than ever on UK roads, and over a million of them are electric https://mechtraveller.com/2025/04/more-motor-vehicles-than-ever-on-uk-roads-and-over-a-million-of-them-are-electric/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/04/more-motor-vehicles-than-ever-on-uk-roads-and-over-a-million-of-them-are-electric/#respond Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:57:25 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11594 The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has just published its latest annual statistics for vehicles registered in the UK, aka the UK 2024 motorparc* data. There are some interesting, if not entirely surprising, trends. In 2024 there were a record 42 million vehicles on UK roads, an increase of 1.4% on the previous […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/04/more-motor-vehicles-than-ever-on-uk-roads-and-over-a-million-of-them-are-electric/feed/ 0 Commuter Snooze Bus https://mechtraveller.com/2017/12/commuter-snooze-bus/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/12/commuter-snooze-bus/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:36:47 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=2871 A bedding manufacturer is planning a commuter bus fitted with sleeping pods. Remember Harry Potter’s Night Bus? Well this could be a little less…wild! The idea is to give bleary-eyed Brits some shut-eye on their ride home at the end of a long day. The “snoozliner” is the brainchild of bedding brand, Simba, whose SEO, […]

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