What I’ve learned from getting an electric vehicle

As regular readers might remember, I have a long term plan to get my household to net zero carbon by 2025. An intermediate step was to get the house to an A rating for efficiency by 2020, which is now done. This year’s challenge was to switch to an electric car.

Left to my own devices, I wouldn’t have a car at all. We chose to live within easy walking distance of the station and the town centre. We walk and cycle, and I get can get a full load of shopping on my Elephant Bike. However, my wife...