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An electrifying trip round Iberia 16 Jun 2025

Looking for adventure Tim Chatterton, a data analyst at the RAC Foundation, and his partner took their electric camper van on a road trip around Spain and Portugal. In the interests of research Tim
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Fuel thefts up by a half in a year 03 Jun 2025

The number of drive-off fuel thefts has increased by almost a half (49%) over the past year, official figures suggest. Forecourt owners attempted to trace offenders over 66,378 incidents between Fe
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RAC Foundation wins £100k grant to explore vehicle safety and inequality 24 Apr 2025

The RAC Foundation has received a grant of £100,000 from the Road Safety Trust to work with the transport safety and behaviour consultancy Agilysis to explore the links between deprivation and vehicl
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Safe mobility for young people - a proposal 02 Oct 2024

The RAC Foundation has been involved with various organisations in exploring the case for adopting some form of licensing for newly qualified young drivers that would ease them more safely than is cur
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MOT data reveals extent of unroadworthy vehicles 18 Sep 2024

Almost ten million MOT tests ended in failure last year, more than a fifth of all those carried out. Thousands of those failed tests were taken by vehicles that had a dozen or more fail-worthy faul
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Data

Plug-in vehicles on the road

Plug-in vehicles on the road
Data

Pump prices over time

Pump prices over time
Data

Pump prices by brand

Pump prices by brand
Data

Green Fleet Index

Green Fleet Index
Data

UK petrol and diesel consumption

UK petrol and diesel consumption
Data

Wholesale fuel prices v pump prices

Wholesale fuel prices v pump prices