Today, EVs, either fully electric or hybrids, are no longer a rarity, but back in 1985, the idea of powering a vehicle with a battery was innovative. It also appealed to budget-tight customers because ...

I don't know what the hell is wrong with me, exactly, but I just love a good, solid failure. And while I'm not sure you can apply the words "good" or "solid" to this thing, you really can't argue that ...

One of my favorite lockdown pastimes has been trawling the history books for old adverts of tech. The best finds are those that are so far ahead of their time they’re laughably mundane by today’s ...

Fifteen of the vehicles were driven at Friday’s event at Alexandra Palace in north London. Sinclair C5 enthusiasts hailed the vehicle as “ahead of its time” as they gathered to mark the 40th ...

The 30th birthday of the Sinclair C5, one of the most unusual vehicles ever to be built in Britain, is being celebrated by the National Motor Museum. First on display in the museum following its ...

The Sinclair C5 was Sir Clive’s famous first venture into electric mobility, a recumbent electric-assisted tricycle which would have been hardly unusual in 2025. In 1985, though, the C5 was so far out ...

Hagerty's Festival of the Unexceptional will spotlight the quirky Sinclair C5 on its 40th anniversary this July. One of Britain’s most notorious commercial flops, the Sinclair C5 electric trike, will ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, the British inventor, has died today at the age of 81, and though it's the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and its impact on personal computing that will go down as his biggest success, it's ...

The Sinclair C5 was Sir Clive’s famous first venture into electric mobility, a recumbent electric-assisted tricycle which would have been hardly unusual in 2025. In 1985, though, the C5 was so far out ...

Author: Adam Sloman The Festival of the Unexceptional has been the home to the forgotten vehicles of the 70s, 80s and 90s. This year we’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of perhaps the most ...

One of the technological oddities of the 1980s is making a comeback of sorts. The nephew of Sir Clive Sinclair – the man responsible for the famous but flawed C5 – is marketing an updated version of ...