Another RFID Card On account of receiving the new RFID card for Reveo which is an energy group for electric vehicle charging points in the south of France, I decided to take a trip to test it out. Started the day with a full charge which I have noted is less at this time of …

Disappointing Tesla Model 3 Day Trip to Barcelona I was going to set off first thing in the morning, but it was raining and I didn’t fancy driving in the rain. The day cleared at about lunchtime so I thought “Why the hell not?”, got in the car and drove. I arrived in Barcelona at …

EV public charging France – All the Options On one of my first trips to France with my electric car, my 2018 Nissan Leaf I got a little bit worried about EV public charging. I wasn’t able to charge the car at the Nissan dealer in Perpignan due to it being closed for lunch. I …

Excuses to drive my electric car During the summer time I drive my electric car every day of the week driving to and from work. Now that I’m off work for some months I don’t have anywhere I need to get to daily. I can quite easily spend three or four days at home in …

The Barcelona Merry-Go-Round Today was road trip day. I decided to go and check out a couple more rapid chargers in Barcelona. Set out from home with the GPS coordinates set for a charger near to Poblenou, Vila Olimpica. It’s a 99 km journey and would take about an hour. I ended up doing a …

RFID cards and apps for activating charge points I decided to go on another trip to Barcelona to test out various charging points around the city. I wanted to look at activating charge points with RFID cards and applications. I took delivery of a card from Sant Cugat de Vallés which was sent out from …

Since June I’ve been driving my Nissan Leaf daily. Every single opportunity to go for a drive I’ve taken it. During the summertime, I think there was maybe only one day where Rosie, my 2018 Nissan Leaf had a day off. We were always doing an EV road trip. Now we are in the middle …

I started the day in a completely disorganised way. I didn’t put the car on charge the previous night, so didn’t have a full battery leaving home to go to Barcelona. Not at all worried because I had enough juice in the car to get to the city and there are plenty of charge points. …

Day Trip to the Salt Mines of Cardona Wasn’t sure if we were going to go on a trip to test EV Charging or not. So we ended up started out a little bit late. We really could’ve got out of the house earlier if we had made a plan. The idea eventually was to go …

The last time I did a trip to the Barcelona airport was just after I got my new car, the Nissan Leaf 2018. I wanted to use one of the Barcelona metropolitan area AMB chargers, but I couldn’t work out how to get it started. I didn’t know anything about the Barcelona rapid chargers and how …