Finding the chase and cutting to it

The past few weeks have seemed really busy.  End of financial quarter, new aspects to my job and a lot of travelling. I am currently racking up around 1,000 miles a month in the diesel which feels terrible.  It’s all the best kind of travelling for the beast but still, averaging 40mpg in a 275bhp […]

Much has been in the news lately about the removal of subsidies for home owners who are deciding to move to micro generation of electricity through the use of solar panels. We were in the 2nd wave of adopters and missed out on the 17p per unit feed in tariff or FIT.  To be honest […]

I have to be honest: I want one! I am sitting at home on a rainy Sunday morning, waiting for the oven to switch itself on to cook the Sunday roast.  We’re having it late today as the 45th Ipswich to Felixstowe vintage car run is due to go past our place in ninety minutes […]

It’s been incredibly busy the past few months so this is a long time after the fact.  I thought you might like to know… What? Well, we had our first service of the Leaf (although to be honest, we have enjoyed owning it so much that it really didn’t feel like a year). It was […]

The last 12 months seem to have flown by, and we are approaching the first anniversary and service for the Leaf. It has covered nearly 5,000 miles as I write this. That is around 500 journeys to work, which seems about right.  After all, this is why we bought the Leaf: to provide a clean, […]

It’s definitely Autumnal at the moment, so naturally, I am planning a reasonably long journey with the Leaf. 116 miles in the South of England is not a treck across the Himalayas! No it is not.  But it is the first long journey I have done in the Electric Car on my own. It will […]

begins with one small step. Today is a beautiful Autumnal day in the East of England.  Last Friday, my family and I finished the final stage of a flight from Cape Town, ZA to Heathrow Airport, UK and finally the last lag home. Not an environmentally friendly trip, but over the past three years we’ve […]

I like winter, from when the leaves start to drop from the trees to when the  rain is sheeting down and when you wake up and the snow has decided to stay beyond the rising of the sun. It is no where near that cold outside yet (this is a picture from Dec 2010), though […]

As part of the Adastral Park Electric Vehicle showcase, I borrowed a Vauxhall Ampera as a demonstrator for the day. At first glance, on paper, the Ampera looks like a hybrid, yet the petrol engine included with the Ampera does not drive the wheels of this great looking car.  Instead, the “engine” acts as an […]

In April, I got a phone call from Glyn Hopkin, Ipswich.  They asked me how we were getting on with the Leaf? Great, I said. Would I like them to bring some of their electric vehicles to my work place and show my colleagues what it was all about?  NIssan were doing a road show […]