Category: Road Trip

Sharing my EV journey and charging experience

12/09/2024

London, Cambridge and Bletchley Park EV costs

This is the route I took and the costs involved. Left home with close to full tank, which I will call 74 kWh useable at 8.5p/kWh, so £6.30. I charged at Birchanger Green Services on the M11, using Applegreen chargers. 30.76 kWh taken on. Credit card was charged £23.69. Zapmap showing 77p/kWh which adds up. I had to do a top up charge on the […]

09/09/2024

Chargers galore at M11 Birchanger Services

My short innovation road trip this week would see me leave home from Bournemouth for a few days in London to attend the Systems Innovation Conference. From there I would set off to Cambridge for Cambridge Tech Week before returning home via Bletchley Park.  This is a 360 mile round trip. I left home with 100% charge but didn’t take a note of the mileage […]

09/04/2024

EV – Bournemouth to Bristol North

My first blog entry about my electric car journey but I’ve cheated as I didn’t even visit an innovation park or did I need to charge. This is such a long way from using my 2012 Nissan Leaf. That car’s battery has degraded so much that I only get a realistic 40 miles max driving to work from Southbourne to the Dorset Innovation Park, which […]