9 minutes ago, lol-lol said:

Apart from the dark winters, the traffic, I remember waking up in Aberdeen one morning and thought I had gone color blind. The city is so grey due to the stone used.

Haverhill area is nice. Will be over that way in a few days to do my tax return with my brother. Going to attempt the journey in my son's EV mini which i wish to show to a lady who has a petrol one to turn her away from the dark side.

Mega EV journeys planned in next few days. Son taking my Scenic down to Brighton so he will need to charge somewhere abd I have ateip to Liverpool on Sunday which I will use my 40 KWh R5 for so a cgarge needed there as a near 250 mile journey.

Use of Gridserve and MFG anticipated which I think are all 59p per KWh for the next 5 weeks or so !

One of the downsides to going electric for many, including some of those who can home charge, is that it seems to be a requirement with some existing EV owners/drivers seem to make any long-distance trip into a round of almost military strategic planning as regards to charging stops, etc.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Graham Butcher

15 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

One of the downsides to going electric for many, including some of those who can home charge, is that it seems to be a requirement with some existing EV owners/drivers seem to make any long-distance trip into a round of almost military strategic planning as regards to charging stops, etc.

There is elements of that. My son just wants to drive and have the xar systens tell him where he can go to charge up a bit if he gets low. The Google, or Tesla software nakes that much easier telling the driver how busy the location is ie number of available bays and what tge price is which can be half as much again even for the same public charging company.

Reading Services has a lot of chargers as does Crawley so should not be too difficult.

30 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

According to Google, you are right; only Russia and China have any up and running. Also, it's rather damning of the UK in that we are one of the very few nations to reduce our reliance on nuclear power stations; since 2006, we have slashed the amount of power generated this way by some 50%, while most other nations have either remained pretty constant or are actively increasing their nuclear power generation contribution.

The UK takes so long to get work operational I despair.

We are seeing, and theun governnents seems to realise, mych more gets done by individuals ie they buy their solar and batteries rather than uk infrastructure which just drags on an on. What is incredible is the hundreds of thousands, becoming millions, of solar abd battery are rivalling the infrastructure projects ie GWs of energy production and tens of GWh of energy storage. Australia had shown tge way on thus by transforming from almost total Grid dependency to home energy production and storage being very significant in a normal daily cycle.