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Alistair Charlton

@alistairj90

Freelance automotive and tech journalist | BBC, CAR Magazine, Forbes, The Independent, Grand Designs, T3, TechRadar, Wired UK

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What’s it like to drive a car five years before it goes into production? Here’s your answer, as I drove the 2028 Lamborghini Lanzador electric concept in California. wired.com/story/first-dr


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Car insurance is due for renewal. Loyal customer, no claims, nothing changed, a years more experience. 40% increase. Makes sense.

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Just had the EXACT same experience. Every year I phone and go ‘oooh let’s get that price down’, then after a bit of banter etc we settle on a happy price. Last week I got a quote for more than double last year’s cost, Me - “Oooh let’s get that price down
.” Them - “we can’t.”

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My Cooper S's insurance is due for renewal at the end of this month. I haven't driven it enough in the last year but that's not relevant... Nothing has changed. Absolutely nothing. And yet Direct Line have raised my premium by 44%. 44%! How can that be justified?

My Cooper S's insurance is due for renewal at the end of this month. 

I haven't driven it enough in the last year but that's not relevant... Nothing has changed. Absolutely nothing. And yet <a href="/DirectLine/">Direct Line</a> have raised my premium by 44%.

44%!

How can that be justified?
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Hello Twitter, I'm looking for an automotive engineer who can make sense of a patent describing an electric vehicle motor #journorequest #prrequest

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Any other Mac users having this with Gmail accounts in the Mail app? Constantly failing to connect, then fails to open the login window. Seems to randomly fix itself, only to break again a few hours later

Any other Mac users having this with Gmail accounts in the Mail app? Constantly failing to connect, then fails to open the login window. Seems to randomly fix itself, only to break again a few hours later
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Your regular reminder that making cars is really rather difficult. Especially when aiming for Apple-like profit margins. Still, rather sad to finally see the end of Project Titan. I’m old enough to remember when Faraday Future was rumoured to be a front for the Apple car.

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I’m looking to talk to people who have swapped their #ElectricCar for a diesel/petrol for a piece in a national paper Could be #EV suffered w/ battery degradation, lack of charging network/breaking, mileage range dropping, rise in insurance or EV losing value etc #journorequest

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Hello, car Twitter. I’m looking for a quick (today) expert comment, for Wired, on the Zhidou Rainbow, the sub-$5000 Chinese EV. Why do they work in China? Could they come to the US/Europe/UK? Is regulation against them in the West? #journorequest #prrequest

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Of course, I would tether from my iPhone. But Vodafone UK can only manage 1.1 Mbps on my street. Two bars of 4G if I'm lucky, despite the coverage map claiming lots of lovely 5G.