Twice in recent weeks (the latest yesterday evening) whilst out and about near our farm I have been flagged down and asked where the nearest charging point is (there is no mobile phone or 2/3/4/5G coverage around these parts).
The look of horror on the driver’s faces says it all when I tell them it is 18 miles away at Aysgarth Falls (there is one 14 miles away, but it is at an organic farm attraction that closes its gates at 5.00pm and hasn’t been working for months anyway).
Interestingly my sister in law who lives on the other side of the farm was thinking about ‘going electric’ however when she sent in a picture of the electric meter no one would fit a charging point (it is a ‘complex meter’ system with two mpans in the same meter due to the heating system fitted for the severe winter weather up here). We can’t even have smart meters fitted because of this.
Also, we cannot apparently have one fitted to the farm’s 3-phase system, used in the milking parlour and mechanical workshop as it is ‘off-grid’, powered by our own Pramac diesel generators (there is no mains 3-phase anywhere about here).
So, electric motoring round here literally is a non-starter.