Two years ago today I attended the launch of the Nissan Leaf electric car in London. It was almost a year before the car was delivered in the UK , and even then 2011 did not remotely live up to the predictions government ministers made for it is the year of the electric vehicle (EV)…. Continue reading
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Can’t commit to an electric car just yet. Why not hire one?
In the big electric car debate, two inconvenient truths confront each other. As far as the naysayers are concerned, range matters. Nissan claim 110 miles for the Nissan LEAF. (People who have driven it say it’s a less, sometimes a lot less, particularly if you drive on motorways, use the air conditioning and blast… Continue reading →
How tourism might join coming electric car revolution
What do the Bedruthan Steps Hotel, Cornwall, Whitesands Hotel, Penzance, Upcott House, Okehampton, the Castle Hotel near Taunton and Audleys Wood Hotel near Basingstoke have in common? As well as being excellent establishments all, I’m sure, they offer another, and still extremely rare, selling point in the tourism industry. They each have charging points where… Continue reading →
Easy electric car charging – coming to a garage near you in 2012
“Range Anxiety” didn’t really cut it as a buzzword for 2011, did it? Not enough stories of electric car drivers stranded miles from a charging point to confirm the still widely-held view that petrol and diesel are still the only reliable fuels to power your car. So let’s try two words that might have a… Continue reading →
Rooftop power helps Red Dwarf star zero in on low driving bills
Set aside “range anxiety”, clearly a big concern for many prospective buyers, for the moment, and there is still a big roadblock on the way to a much wider acceptance of electric cars. It’s that drivers are simply shifting the carbon dioxide generated in providing the energy to drive the car from the petrol… Continue reading →
Little Chef takes charge of electric motoring
We remember them well, those worthy but dull roadside stops. They modernised Little Chef menus in recent years, and even dabbled in what passes for haute cuisine. Heston Blumenthal redesigned the fare at the Popham restaurant on the A303 near Basingstoke, with coq au vin and braised ox cheeks. But still the brand didn’t really stand out,… Continue reading →