Electric car range on BBC Breakfast this morning, reporter Brian Milligan is going to attempt to drive from London to Scotland in an electric car, using only public free points.
This is an attempt to answer the question about which electric motoring actually is? In particular this will look at the issue that has already gotten it is own 21st century moniker ' range anxiety '.
Despite the hype of the battery revolution it is still not easy to drive an electric car for anything other than urban life, your daily commute, city school walk or supermarket shop (approximately 50 km). You substantially less distance of a full battery than you outside of a full tank of gasoline.
Brian's proposed route.
The BBC acknowledge the test is somewhat unfair by car designed especially for short-distance driving. Milligan, however, is going to try and an electric Mini the 484 km drive from London to Edinburgh and more importantly, only using publicly available charging points. If electric cars are going to be really grown in the United Kingdom require that the range be resloved. Either by means of better batteries or a more comprehensive load network between cities, and ideally both.
Anyway, there are plenty of charging points and they divided correctly for Milligan to Edinburgh within a week work? He should get in the North of England ok but from there to Edinburgh (the scheduled day 4) will the interesting stage of the route. There is also the question of what happens when he lay down in serious traffic and sit for any length of time is deferred. Even with turning the engine off, can creep into traffic for 3 hours cause problems. We will be keeping an eye on his progress, watch this space ....
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