Last week, as my family was driving to catch the ferry to Bute, we stopped to charge at the westbound M8 Harthill Services. My mum’s Nissan Leaf runs around 85 miles on a full charge but motorways quickly run down the battery.
“Several days,” she replied. Something about prioritising the hospitals. Something made me picture just one harried engineer, running around Scotland. And probably in a petrol van. I wonder what he/she thinks of the Government touting electric vehicles as the silver bullet to tackling When we got to Wemyss Bay, the trains from Glasgow Central were “on time” and everyone getting off the train looked very happy. It was a strong reminder of the value of publicThere are 2672 EV charging points currently listed in an Excel file on ChargePlace Scotland’s website. The “out of service list” included around 33 – last updated on September 21. Another list showed “non-communicative units” i.e.
Unfortunately, it was the wrong type of connector for the Nissan Leaf. Luckily, my mum had thought to bring her own.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.