Green Strip Guide

🥷 My Wife is an EV Advocate - Proud 🥷 I’m proud of my wife today - she fought the EV corner exceptionally well. Firstly, a friend who spent £600 a month on diesel, relented and swapped it for an EV recently and now spends just £50 per month on electricity juice. He was explaining today with enthusiasm how nice it was to drive compared to the diesel. It’s a win-win. With this info banked wifey headed to the hairdressers (I’ve personally not been to one in 20 years) where the hairdresserists were complaining about the new parking regime being introduced in Kings Langley high street (1 hour max stay for free). There are two car parks now restricted to 4 hours of free parking - it’s hardly a deal breaker, but nonetheless it’s a change and the businesses were complaining (mostly because they’ll have to move their cars at lunchtime). Anyway, one of the car parks recently introduced Osprey chargers as reviewed by @PaulNissanEV (link here if you fancy a watch: youtu.be/rj8ER792eVg?si=0L0q…) and the local businesses were complaining because it’s taking up parking spaces. So wifey, equipped with 2 years experience of EV ownership, explained that people looking to charge, especially in a free car park, are likely going to spend time mooching about in the high street so it was a benefit to the local businesses. Fearing the clippers, she explained that she owns an EV and then explained the story about the friend above which then got them all asking questions about cost of home charging, how much we spend, where we’ve driven (literally all over) and it got the curiosity juices flowing especially as she recently drove to Birmingham and back without needing to charge. Minds were blown. She never really talks about cars at all and when I have a conversation about them she tends to doze off (subconsciously she’s still absorbing my wisdom). But it just goes to show that the impression people have who may spend some time during the day reading newspapers is lacking critical, truthful, information and detail on EVs only focusing on negative stories instead. My hope is a few will actually do some research and listen to a few more fellow EV drivers to access that missing knowledge bank. Changing to an EV no longer costs more than changing to another ICE car whether it’s new or used. So why not replace it when it’s time and buy an EV and benefit from saving some money, too, if it fits your needs.