EV Matters - UK's sole car-entrant for WAVE 2014!
Hello and welcome to the EV Matters Daily blog for the 2014 World Advance Vehicle Expedition (WAVE 2014). This set of pages will contain the routine ourflow of event news and happenings - but if this is your first visit, possibly you should first take a browse in the Overvew + other pages that take your interest!
The blog will appear in reverse order, so chronologically you may want to get to scroll to the end and then scroll back to the point, of your last visit!
Are we ready for WAVE 2014?
Well I though we were nearly ready - until the co-driver revesed the car into a tree! So back to the body-shop asap! Is the planning done - well so/so. Have we booked - well the WAVE entrance fee is paid and we have the ferry tickets - but nothing else!
Are we worried - not a lot! The whole think about operating an EV is about managing 'uncertainty' - there are just too many variables in the 'touring Europe' equation - the only constant is that things will never turn our as you plan them! I've got lots of printouts and a spreadsheet - so we know what has to be achieved and where we might go for charging!
Are we taking the shortest route - well no! The shortest route is via Reims, but the French have invested nothing in creating an EV infrastructure! I could rely on Renault garages, who certain that will offer a charge - but its the slowest charge rate that you will get anywhere! One route is via southern Belgium - but that's pretty industrial. The there is a proposal (from Transport Evolved's planning) to go E to Aachen and on to Cologne - but that is pedicated on a series of Nissan garages. But will Belgian, Dutch and German Nissan garages all give charges to a Mitsubushi - I wouldn't be on it!
Our route can best be described as a 'wave' - top of the wave is Brussels, bottom of the wave is in Metz and a few more ripples will get us to Strasbourg and then up-stream to Stuttgart!
Will we make it to the start - the best I can say is 'probably'!
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