EV rescues when ICE melts

1st October 20152nd April 2015 by Chris

When Jan needed to get our to an important lunch meeting yesterday it seemed like all would fail when the Rover failed to start. The problem wasn’t serious but sorting it would take a bit of time and that meant being late and, probably, missing the appointment.

So it was my Leaf to the rescue, starts instantly and Jan was quickly on the road. What I so often fail to recall is how different it is to drive my car. I said to call me if there was any problem driving it; a couple of hours later my home phone rang but the line cleared as I picked up.

Later Jan confirmed it had been her calling because she couldn’t get the Leaf to start. That’s the issue with an EV, you don’t know that it’s started because there’s no engine, no noise, nothing that says it’s turned on. Press the start button and put you foot on the accelerator – that’s all you need. No fuss.

Fortunately the penny dropped fast and Jan was on the road again. Years of ICE indoctrinate makes you to want to hear an engine rumble when turning the ignition key.

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For sure, driving a Nissan Leaf is a special experience.

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Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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