It’s Car Tech Week on T3.com

The Gadget Website | View in browser  Like  Follow Welcome back! If you're a bit of a petrol head then, boy, are you in for a treat. It's Car Tech Week on T3.com and we've got details on all the very latest in-car technologies, as well as features covering everything from hybrid power to electric and self-driving cars. Hybrids are becoming more and more popular. But how do they work in the real world? We investigate. Thinking of buying an electric car? We reveal 11 things you should know before making the jump. Also this week, if you've got time, money and space, why not think about building a car of your very own? And discover exactly what counts as a hybrid. Find all this and much more on the site every day! T3 Awards winners It’s the magazine issue in which we get to crown the best tech of 2015 – as voted for by you. We had a massive 229,000 votes online this year. Then we assembled an expert panel to make the final decisions. It’s been a long journey, culminating in a glittering awards ceremony in London last month. [Read more...] T3 DEAL: Save 41% on ASUS Google Nexus 7 Tablet Nexus 7 – the powerful, portable seven-inch tablet – is from Google, made in collaboration with ASUS. Nexus 7 is powered by Android, so you can choose from more than 975,000 apps and games available, including thousands of tablet optimised titles. There really is something for everyone. [Read more... ] How does a plug-in hybrid work in real life? Hybrids are becoming more and more popular, and plug-in hybrid sales increased by an impressive 628% in 2014. One day we'll all have a plug-in vehicle of some sort, but if you don't know what they're like to use, they're still a bit of a mystery. So how do they work in the real world? [Read more...] Don't buy an electric car before you've read our 11 things you must know Like any radical new technology, electric vehicles (EVs) can be confusing. Are they cheap or expensive to buy and run? Do they actually do any good for the environment? Are range anxiety and charging real worries? And what are they really like to own, to drive and to look after? [Read more...] SPECIAL OFFER: Subscribe to the best Technology magazines & save up to 54% T3 | MacFormat | Linux Format | Windows Help & Advice Best kit car: got the time, money and space, why not build your own car? Why pay someone else to build you a gleaming, refined and reliable new car, when you can knock up a shoddy, chintzy and possibly lethal lash up on your own dime? Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of kit cars. [Read more...] Hybrid power explained: what counts as a hybrid? As with any technology, everyone thinks that they know best. And so it is with hybrid cars. Some use a small combustion engine to aid the battery power, some use a battery to help iron out imperfections in the combustion engine. All of this leads to confusion, which requires some digging to be done. [Read more...] ©  Future Publishing Limited. Reg No. 3757874 England. Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA. Future Publishing Limited is a member of the Direct Marketing Association. To unsubscribe from this email please click here. View our Terms and Conditions here.