Archive for 'Driving off the grid'
Lighting up my world
I ended up with a day on my hands. I could have spent it feeling sorry for myself (and did start down that route) before I picked myself up by the scruff of my neck and gave myself a shake down! Get to the chase? So what? Over the past 5 years, I have had […]
Posted: July 28th, 2018 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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Two steps forward, one step back – recovered from the Wayback machine!
[Originally posted on the December 4th, 2016] Three years ago, as part of my job, I was involved in the UK role out of smart meters, which are basically mobile devices metering your gas and electricity and sending the data back to your energy provider. As a consumer, this is great because you can see […]
Posted: July 4th, 2018 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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It’s been a while
Life with the Leaf becomes the norm pretty quickly and you do just take it for granted. Since we bought the Leaf in Jan 2014, I cannot imagine using an internal combustion engine for my daily commute. In fact, my beautiful motorbike is failing to rack up miles as a result. A rhythm is established […]
Posted: July 21st, 2016 under Driving off the grid.
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ICE’d, ICE’d baby
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 […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2015 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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What a difference a year makes
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 […]
Posted: October 10th, 2015 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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A load off my mind
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 […]
Posted: May 3rd, 2015 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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Haven’t you been good!
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 […]
Posted: March 8th, 2015 under Driving off the grid.
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A year on…
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, […]
Posted: January 17th, 2015 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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First, the plan
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 […]
Posted: November 28th, 2014 under Driving off the grid.
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A journey of a 1,000 miles
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 […]
Posted: November 4th, 2014 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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