This year I’ve been rather keen to do a charity run from John O Groats to Land’s End in an EV. It’s a project that I’ve thought about several times in the past few years but never actually got around to doing. My intial idea would be that the proceeds of the run would go…

Velma the PHEV is dead. It’s a sad day for us.

News from this week at aminorjourney.com

The BBC have just ran a story on their Breakfast show about electric and other green vehicles. There’s an EPIC fail on the part of the BBC… Sigh..

Meet one of the smallest pickup trucks ever made. Now converted into an EV by a very clever Australian.

Join Nikki for EVcast #246 ReVolting!

This is the second in the series of articles on buying a used EV rather than a brand new one. Let’s face it, in today’s economic climate forking out an an extra few thousand big ones for the benefit of having a new car is not quite as attractive as it once was. Who wants to buy a car which will depreciate the minute it pulls, silently, off the dealer lot? My last article dealt with some of the issues you face when buying a second-hand EV either made by a big company or converted by one. Today we’re going to look at the other end of the spectrum. Looking at a car which has been completely converted by someone in their spare time.

I’m afraid I’m not posting my own article at www.aminorjourney.com today. As many of you may already know my partner Kate and I are getting married in two month’s time  and we are also going through the adoption process. Combined with the many tens of thousands of words we’re writing up in our adoption paperwork,…

EVs are now well and truly in the public eye. They’re clean, green and everyone knows that they’re on the way. You see them on TV and you maybe even see them in the streets. Three years ago you’d not have even entertained the idea of changing your gas-guzzler for something running off electricity, but now you’re starting to see the light. It’s time to change your car and while you’ve decided that you really want to go for a plug in you can’t afford the crippling car payment on a fancy new Tesla or you can’t wait until 2011, when most of the new wave of evs hit the market. You want an EV right away and despite your will to get down and dirty with a home conversion you know in your heart of hearts that the most technical you’ve got in the past was filling up the windscreen washer fluid. You can’t afford to pay someone to convert for you but you’re willing to spend some time learning about what makes EVs tick. Could a used EV be an option for you? How do you know that that second-hand EV you’re looking at is going to keep working and running for years to come? Let’s look at some of the common issues with second-hand EVs to help you spot which EVs are a good second-hand buy.