A decade on, those objections have all pretty much gone away. What makes electric cars so fascinating is the speed of change. Whatever you knew about them is wrong. Whatever you know now will soon be wrong too.
Let’s go for a drive to look at some of the reasons. It’s a route of 750 miles in two days, going to some remote places, and in sketching it out beforehand my attitude to charging the car is basically, “What could possibly go wrong?” This, I tell myself, isn’t foolhardiness. It’s experience. I’ve done several similar trips in this same Renault Megane lately and had no trouble.
So, from London up the A1 to Gridserve’s solar installation near Easingwold in Yorkshire. I’m a farm boy and think in acres, but you probably think in footballis on the go rapid charging, and most of that happens by day because most long journeys are by day. By contrast, the overall majority of electric vehicle charging is the slow sort, which happens at night when the grid is less stressed and relies more on wind. That’s why night electricity is lower priced as well as greener.
