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Nearly Two and Half Years Driving an Electric Car

Overall, I’m still happy with my Nissan Leaf which I bought in 2018. It has the 40 kWh battery and for most of my journeys is just perfect. During this time there have been a couple of journeys where I have suffered range anxiety. I did a trip to Arles in France to see an exhibition of Vincent van Gogh’s work projected into a quarry. I didn’t run out of electrons during the trip, but I did have…

800km Trip with Rosie The Nissan Leaf

Arles for a Van Gogh Exhibition

The trip to Arles in France in my Nissan Leaf at the end of December went fairly well. I like to stop a place in Figueres which is only about 70 km away from where I live. It’s good for a quick top up before arriving in France. It’s a Nissan dealership with a rapid charger. I wasn’t successful this time to get much charge because the connector on the end of the…

Checking Out New Charging Spots

Listening to Blue Öyster Cult

I came out to a local town and check out the new charging point newly available. It’s a fast charger and not a rapid charger. On the front there are two doors one says charging 22 kW and the other one says charging normal 6 kW. The charger I’m using is the 22kW which has the type two socket. I’ve not looked, but I expect the other to be a shuko socket. I’ll only…

Electric Car Trip To Girona and I spotted a Tesla Model 3

I went to Girona principally to buy a new windscreen wiper for my Leaf and also to look at the local prices of the Xiaomi M365 Electric scooters. I was shocked at the price of the wipers at the Nissan dealer. €75 is more than double what I expected to be paying. I went to a motor parts shop and bought the one I needed for €25 which was also expensive, but the two other cheaper brands in the shop…

My Continuing EV Journey in Spain. Off on a trip to the Pyrenees mountains. Home to Les Angles and charging the car along the way.

I’ve had my Nissan Leaf for over a year now and still love the car. I’ve driven over 23,000 km in that time and I still like going out on a trip to enjoy the driving experience. Over time you become used to living with and driving an electric vehicle. It becomes the new normal. When I’m at work during the summertime I plug the car in every couple of days as I only drive 22 km daily to work and…

Short Trips and Shopping Centre Charging of the Nissan Leaf Electric car.

It’s a while since I’ve been out on a longer day trip. Rosie has been doing the daily chores of getting me to work and back. I only have an 11 km drive to work and 11 km to drive back. Not much else apart from that, just a couple of trips 40 km away to attend choir rehearsals. It’s not a particularly fun drive. I just get on to the dual carriageway, put on the Pro-Pilot Assist and keep an eye on…

One Year Service on Nissan Leaf

Getting the car serviced

I arrived here on time at 9 o’clock and it’s taken a half an hour to get all the paperwork sorted to get the car into the garage. It was fairly simple and the man was helpful and tried to speak a little bit of English with me. He didn’t really need to as my Spanish is up to the task. There was a huge amount of paperwork and signing of things to be done. Things were…

A bit of a look at news and Setting the Car Heating on a Timer. The joys of electric vehicle ownership.

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# Publishing Using the Shortcuts App From Drafts

I do my writing ✍️ in Drafts and I want to do it all on the iPad. So I downloaded the shortcut I found. The **Drafts** app is text only so I have to get images and then do a markdown link to its url. 

I sent the image in through the Transmit app and used the action I have on a keyboard set of actions to insert the markdown code. With the preview…

Art Gallery Trip - Nissan Leaf GPS Rat Run in Cerét, France. Squeezed the car through some narrow streets and made it without scratching the car or losing mirrors. Rosie had to breathe in though.

Following the stupid GPS

Or is the driver stupid for following the GPS? It was the day of the road trip to France I wanted to go visit a modern art museum in the small town of Cerét in France. The trip was unsuccessful with the museum closed until April. I thought I was onto a winner going on a Wednesday because it is normally closed on a Monday. Guess what, from April my day off will be on a…

Electric Car Future EV20Q podcast. I’m getting impatient for change. Too many fossil fuel cars being sold still.

Future of electric cars

My own specific future for electric cars will be my Nissan Leaf. This is because I went with the option of buying the car outright and I didn’t want to go down the route of leasing. Many people are predicting we won’t own cars in the future, but we’ll have some sort of subscription which will allow us to use a car whenever we need one. My circumstances with where I live…

Electric Vehicle Bubble - Barcelona much better set up with electric vehicles than Sevilla. I didn't see much in the way of EV's in Andalucía

Electric vehicles in Spain

The Spanishgovernment has recently announced this year’s EV fund money for the promotion of electric vehicles and infrastructure. Some of the money is for grants to help people buy electric vehicles and the rest of it is to go towards the installation of charging points around the country. The south of the country and in particular the interior of the country away…

Catalan Strike Blocked Roads – Leaf Trip

Lots of driving in Rosie the Nissan Leaf

With having my family here for the last couple of weeks I haven’t been able to do much in the way of podcasting, video making or writing. On the other hand, I have travelled a lot of kilometres in Rosie the 2018 Nissan Leaf. I feel really comfortable with the range the car has. I don’t feel I have much in the way of range anxiety at all. The day before…

Type 2 or Granny Charging Speeds near Barcelona in my Nissan Leaf. A good day out along the coast sount of where I live.

I went for a drive down the coast to check out a couple of charging points. I went to a place called Sant Pol de Mar and is not too far away from where Greg lives, the guy with the black 2018 Nissan Leaf. In the town there were three charging points to choose from and I went to all of them. The first two had two separate charging posts one with Shuko sockets and the other with two Mennekes…

EV Charging Roulette – On a Trip to France

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