Electric Vehicles

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We worked out a route and looked at booking hotels, a treehouse, a campervan and a lighthouse; we’d visit friends and family; and we’d explore the capital cities of four nations – it sounded amazing.

It was this careful planning that meant I soon stopped anxiously watching the number of miles left on the dashboard display and started to enjoy the drive.

I tend to get tired quite quickly when I’m driving, but on this trip, despite being the only driver, I found myself feeling rested when I arrived at each destination, rather than dazed and exhausted after staring at a motorway for hours without let-up.

When I go to the beach or into town, I can leave it as long as I want on a free-parking lamp-post charger, spending the money I would have paid for parking on a few extra miles of charge.

For a full tank, I leave it on a local lamp-post overnight, many of which now have allocated bays to prevent ICEing (being blocked by a car with an internal combustion engine).

Local provision has to be a gradual process, to be approached by councils delicately – my neighbours would be entitled to be upset if 10 of their parking spaces were suddenly taken over by EV-only bays that largely sat empty.

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