EV 20 Questions

800km trip in the Nissan Leaf to Arles in France and back home to Spain. Chargers not working, Chargers missing and badly behaved Tesla drivers

One of the great things with a connected electric car is the ability to remotely turn on the heating or AC. There’s also the timer in the car to set it up. Where I live is a fairly warm climate, at least, it is warm for most of the year. So it’s not needed to …

Following the stupid GPS Or is the driver stupid for following the GPS? It was the day of the road trip to France I wanted to go visit a modern art museum in the small town of Cerét in France. The trip was unsuccessful with the museum closed until April. I thought I was onto …

Future of electric cars My own specific future for electric cars will be my Nissan Leaf. This is because I went with the option of buying the car outright and I didn’t want to go down the route of leasing. Many people are predicting we won’t own cars in the future, but we’ll have some …

I went for a drive down the coast to check out a couple of charging points. I went to a place called Sant Pol de Mar and is not too far away from where Greg lives, the guy with the black 2018 Nissan Leaf. In the town there were three charging points to choose from …

On Saturday it was a small day trip out with the EV. The plan was to go to a town near to the border and enjoy ourselves in a restaurant in which you can eat yourself silly if you want to. It’s a buffet style restaurant and cheap as well. It’s in a shopping centre …

I went for an end of January trip to France add EV chargers to Plugshare application. I set out from home with the Guess-o-Meter to telling me I had about 240 km in the battery. With the temperature being low I don’t get as many kilometres as I used to in the summertime. Last summer …

Just after getting back from a trip to Birmingham for a family event the expected news from CES came through about the 2019 Nissan Leaf. There had already been plenty of rumours about what was coming with the new version of the generation 2 Leaf and there were no big surprises. The new size for …

EV20Q Podcast 49 – Révéo Charging in France It was another electric car road trip day and this time to France. I recently received the Révéo RFID card and I wanted to test it out. On my last trip in a northerly direction to do the testing I wasn’t able to get past the traffic …

48 – EV20Q Podcast News Since my last road trip with my Nissan Leaf I visited Ireland. I had to hire a car in Ireland and unfortunately, it was a petrol car. It sounded and felt really agricultural compared to driving my beautiful electric car. As we were leaving from Barcelona airport it was necessary …