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 ...

Sir Clive Sinclair was flying in the mid-80s. He'd revolutionised the home computer scene with the ZX Spectrum, so could seemingly do no wrong. But then came the Sinclair C5. Lauded for its size, lack ...

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 ...

Good things come to those who wait, and all that, but good things also take time. That one is not a golden rule, but it does seem to apply to the direct successor of the Sinclair C5 EV, the Iris ...

Clive Sinclair was a serial inventor and visionary whose output also included the prototype electric car. His other interests included poetry, marathon-running and poker. “RIP, Sir Sinclair. I loved ...

A digital watch that kept poor time and might explode. A keyboard that felt like typing on a corpse. A three-wheeled electric “car” that couldn’t power its way uphill. No successful products for ...