Very cold weather is about to hit Yorkshire - but DON'T warm up your car engines

We've been told for years that we should let our car warm up in cold weather before driving to work, but is this actually true?

Yorkshire has been battling bitterly cold mornings since the beginning of the year, and it’s not about to get any warmer.

Commuters are set to travel to work tomorrow in 5C conditions before the temperatures drop even further to freezing the rest of the week.

This means we’ll have to continue spending the mornings de-icing our cars before setting off but we may not need to warm the engine up.

Engineering Explained has revealed that all vehicles built today, and for the last 25 years, have electronic fuel injections.

This system can make the air-fuel mixture richer when a car is cold to get a ‘complete atomization of the fuel’.

Engines with electronic fuel injection have sensors that compensate for the cold by pumping more gasoline into the engine cylinder’s mixture.