Chairman's blog

Every week our Chairman, Roddy Graham writes a blog in BusinessCar. Copies of his blog also appear here, with his latest below. Others appear in the Chairman's blog archive.

Black round things

May 31, 2013 16.52

Black round things have been front of mind recently. The one through unfortunate experience each and every day, the other...

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Squeezing the last drop out of fuel consumption

May 20, 2013 16.22

Surprise, surprise, vehicle manufacturers look likely to have to qualify their fuel consumption figures following an Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)...

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Cost of black holes widening

April 9, 2013 17.38

Black holes have become an annual topic of my blogs, the last written on March 30 last year. So no...

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Vehicle Manufacturing Holy Grail

March 4, 2013 18.34

The contrasting fortunes of two of Europe’s largest car makers could not be more marked. As VW Group looks set...

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Eye on Duty of Care

January 29, 2013 15.30

Driving in a snow blizzard recently was not a pleasant experience. The snowflakes came hurtling thick and fast at the...

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Recharging batteries

January 7, 2013 15.27

2012 was a highly successful year for us. The hard work took its toll though and the Christmas break, starting...

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ICFM Conference Highlights

Dec 5, 2012 16.06

The news that London homeowners are going to be incentivised with free electric recharging points, worth £1,500, in return for...

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At work road deaths up

November 16, 2012 15.47

Regrettably, road deaths last year rose by three per cent, the first increase in almost a decade. According to police...

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More on electric vehicle dirty little secrets

October 29, 2012 17.30

I’ve written before about electric vehicles’ ‘dirty little secrets’. At first glance, one would imagine they are perfectly clean but...

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California Dreaming

October 4, 2012 17.42

The future is with us now. Talking cars have been a pipedream for decades but now they are a reality....

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UK automotive U-turn

September 11, 2012 17.17

For the first time in 36 years, the value of UK car exports exceeds that of imports. UK vehicle manufacturers...

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EU regulation madness

Aug 9, 2012 17.14

If times were not so serious you would just have to laugh at those over-paid EU bureaucrats in Brussels. The...

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Sticky fingers

July 16, 2012 16.29

There is no question that towns and cities will have to work hard towards achieving a zero emissions policy in...

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Government must remain faithful to carbon emissions taxation regime

June 15, 2012 16.14

Am I the only one thinking that the Government is beginning to unravel? I’m not talking about all the famous...

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Motorway investment needed

May 23, 2012 16.26

Motorways are in the headlines this week – fortunately not through some horrendous mass pile-up, although unfortunately you never quite...

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Emissions achievements to be proud of

April 20, 2012 16.14

Great news from the SMMT that CO2 car emissions have dropped by 23 per cent since 2000 – this is...

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Black holes of different varieties

March 30, 2012 17.07

Back to one of my pet subjects – black holes – not the mysterious kinds, just those chassis-shaking, bone jarring...

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French stupidity reaches new levels – even for the French!

March 8, 2012 15.54

Amazing as it may seem, from 1 July this year, if you take your car over to France, you must...

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Plug-in dead end

February 13, 2012 16.21

It never fails to amaze me how governments, of whatever political persuasion, live in an unreal world.  Do the policy...

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