Synthetic fuel running on empty already
Hey, I know. I too am shocked to find myself writing an edition of Car Science not the other newsletter but there’s been a few interesting stories recently...
Car Science: moths to neon
Hey, It’s been a really long time since I’ve felt like I’ve had anything to write. There’s a 6000 word email about picking nodules out of the Clarion...
Car Science: living and breathing
Hey, Let's skip the apology paragraph. Things have been bad. I increasingly suspect they're never going to be anything other than that again. IndyCat died...
Car Science: buckling under pressure
Hey, Sorry for not sending a Car Science for ages again. I had this like, vague idea I'd do some video stuff but honestly it's overambitious, this already...
Car Science: school of hard knocks
Hey, Here's a new thing to worry about on a Wednesday afternoon: we are probably all a lot more concussed than we think we are. Not in the sense of, say,...
Car Science: dogs die in hot cars
Hey, Sorry, I - look, there's no point me even apologising at this stage, is there. I'm just useless at sending this on time. Let's just bin off the concept...
Car Science: Blowing smoke
Hey, This is also not the email with a long bit apologising for not having sent an email for ages that's about metamaterials. That's just taking me ages to...
Car Science: r u havin a giggle m8
Hey, I have a grovelling edition apologising for why I haven't sent one for ages and going on a lot about being depressed to send at some point but firstly,...
Car Science: 6 minute charging
Hey, I just got back from Le Mans, which is why I didn't send Car Science last week (I sincerely intended to write it on my phone and send it because I'd...
Car Science: crash prone
Hey, Happy Friday, assuming I send this on Friday. If so, I'll have achieved an unprecedented goal of both sending this on the day it's supposed to go out...
Car Science: actually good
Hey, What are the similarities between a newsletter-writing journalist and a 1980s Lada? Well, we're both older than the fall of the Soviet Union and require...
Car Science: gulf edition
Hey, You know what's coming up this weekend? The Monaco Grand Prix. Everyone loves a fun livery for that, don't they. A nice Gulf version. We love a nice...
Car Science: Cara Delevingne's Face Mist
Hey, Sorry, I know it's Monday but let's be honest: there's every chance I'll forget to send either Wednesday or Friday's edition and also I was gripped by...
Car Science: all aboard
Hey, This is only going to be a quick one, which is the sort of stupid thing I say before writing several thousand words and also because I'm still writing...
Car Science: positive energy
Hey, Don't say 'it's past 5pm, you clearly forgot it was Friday again didn't you,' say 'why are you sending this on a bank holiday anyway?' Well there's some...
Car Science: ICE cream meltdown
Hey, Gosh it's been such a long five days since the last edition, I am keeping up with scheduling just fine. This week's news-ier edition is about emissions...
Car Science: AI road rage
Hey, Well, we've made it to another Friday. At what cost. editor's note: apparently at the cost of me realising what day it was and sending out Car Science,...
Car Science: midtown madness
Hey, It's this week's news edition which means we get to talk about how everything is unmitigatedly terrible for a few thousand words. This week's edition...
Car Science: spelunking for promethium
Hey, I think I said this was going to be about electrolyte but then Cell Reports did a special on metal-organic frameworks and I went down a hole. There's...
Car Science: the sausage machine
Hey, Working 9-5: it's a surprisingly aspirational way to be making a living, in retrospect, now that we live in horrendous sprint-grind-crunch culture. Gone...