Finding the chase and cutting to it

This seems an odd time to write this post, as there is no anniversary coming up. But it is a conversation that comes up every so often. Here’s my answer to it. When we first got our Nissan Leaf Tekna in January 2014, it inspired this section of the blog, and ultimately, the podcast of […]

Time rich, money poor is the mirror of money rich and time poor, which is the problem of our time as we return to the office at least 3 times a week. My commute at the moment takes 4 hours out of my week, and it is shattering. Before I took this role, my commute […]

That’s vehicle to grid to you and me. When we’re not driving, our car is plugged in to a charger which is controlled by our energy supplier. This is key – our supplier, Ovo, do not have ANY means of generating electricity but they are a supplier.  Well, technically, a value added reseller. That’s the […]

I started a new job on Tuesday, which has meant I am working in a different, swanky, office. Swanky? It’s been recently refurbed and thanks to lockdown, largely unsoiled since the work was done. Of course that means you try many new things. One of my learning points today was a different type of charging […]

We moved house 6 years ago (almost to the date) and got a bit of a shock when our first month’s energy bill came in – our electric bill was £101.  For a month. My friends are all groaning at this point, as I tell of how I sat in the kitchen looked up to […]

Running the Leaf between the 10th August 2017 to the 9th August 2018 If we’re talking about power consumption, we need to discuss the Leaf.  How much is it costing us to run, bearing in mind we are now funding every mile from our home electricity supply? Month Distance travelled (miles) Energy economy (m/kW) Power […]

We bought our Nissan Leaf on the 27th January 2014 out right apart from a 5 year lease on the battery, which gave us ownship of the battery at the end of the lease. Only two years later we were told we were on a “Flex battery lease” which has no end date 😮 And […]

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 […]

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 […]