Journalist Nick Jenkins reports on how charging stops worked out travelling to his second home in France
The screen told us we had 0% left in our battery as our electric car crawled up to the charger. We had been holding our breath but could finally let out a sigh of relief. We plugged the car in – and disaster… the charger was out of order.
Only kidding.
Nothing at all like that happened on our recent drive to Dordogne, though it might surprise those who believe everything they read on some Brits-in-France Facebook pages.
Electric cars are no longer a novelty, of course.
The Renault Zoe has been around since 2012. All the major manufacturers are now producing electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in cars accounted for a quarter of new sales in France last December – and a third in the UK.
PARIS (Nov. 30, 2015) Ð As the official passenger-car provider for the United NationÕs COP21 climate conference in Paris, the Alliance will provide 200 pure electric vehicles to the annual summit which runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. A network of 90 charge spots has been set up to charge the vehicles using low-carbon electricity provided by French energy supplier EDF.
No doubt many readers already drive one. They are clearly the future, but there is still resistance.
Some people are so attached to the quaint mid-Victorian technology of the internal combustion engine that they cannot accept change is coming.
“I’m not buying a Noddy car that only goes 50 miles,” one Luddite told me.
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