In January I drove a Nissan LEAF from London to Edinburgh, it was cold and we had the heater on. We stopped to charge eight times. Twenty minutes charge each time, we never got close to empty. We...
If that isn’t a click bait headline I don’t know what is. A Prius on the Nürburgring, for goodness sake, that just silly. No way could that beat a Porsche 911 GT3 or the McLaren P1. Of course it...
It’s very hard not to imagine someone sitting at a desk in the BBC news department tapping a chewed ball point pen on their desk as they mutter, ‘there must be another way we can spin an anti-elect...
There was a taxi drivers strike in Barcelona on the day I spent there recently. Sadly I didn't have time to find out why they were on strike, I did see a demonstration of taxi drivers in the cent...
Up until the other day I had never even sat in a Porsche so when I was handed the keys of a two tonne Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid I was a little bit overwhelmed. I'll say this at the start, those ...
It’s far to early to tell if Formula E will work. By that I mean we don’t know if it will survive for more than one season, will get sufficient long term financial backing (they're fine for this y...
Flying to Berlin on a clear day was revealing of the British versus mainland Europe’s energy policy over the last 20 years. As we skirted the Thames estuary I could just make out the impressive a...
Last night I attended a posh dinner at London’s exclusive Savoy Hotel. Nice. The event was organised by Chargemaster, the company that has installed over 3,000 public charge points in London. T...
There is something in the air. Yes, I know it’s mostly particulates, SOX and NOX emissions from modern diesel engines and CO2 from home heating, power stations and 10 mile traffic jams, but there’...
One of the big advantages of driving a Nissan LEAF 35,000 miles becomes apparent when you get to drive another electric car. Instead of just experiencing the novelty of the electric car (oh goodnes...