On 27/01/2014 13:56, "Evan Tuer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Martin WINLOW <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I haven't read the Llewellyn article yet. He does a Youtube video >>series >> called 'Fully Charged' which is quite good as he is very keen, not very >> technically minded and - I think - rather amusing. He is best known in >>the >> UK for playing the part of a robot in a sit-com TV series called Red >>Dwarf >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf - which was also rather good, >> but probably not generally to US tastes. Quirky doesn't really cover it. >> > >I believe he made it here (Fife) on Friday. People from EVA Scotland went >to have dinner with him after our regular meeting. My peugeot had eaten a >wheelbearing on the way (the wheel was leaning over!) so I slowly clunked >home instead. Here¹s a link to Robert¹s blog about the trip; http://llewblog.squarespace.com/electric-cars The drive took a lot of behind the scenes monitoring by the charging network providers but it did hold up well enough for the complete round trip without major incident. In total it took ~12 hours to drive 400 miles London to Edinburgh. Personally I would never rely on a charging network with little or no redundancy and have driven more than 51,000 miles in 3.5 years without using rapid¹ charging networks. IMO range will quickly kill off these networks in the UK. Kevin Sharpe | Founder & Patron | Zero Carbon World is a UK Registered Charity #1141347 _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
