Category: Cars
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Cupra and Code Veronica (is that anything?)
In response to the title, probably not… A slight aside before getting into the meat of this post. We ran into the first battle for chargers over the weekend. At Gloucester services most of the chargers were occupied which led to a queue forming. There were some spaces on Tesla Superchargers, but not everyone has…
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(Even more) Electrification
We’ll soon be moving away from fossil fuels entirely as a family (on a household level)… The Next Car The Polestar 2 experiment has been a success. A few months in and over 2,500 miles (even without commutes), it has been an excellent automobile. Yes I’ve had niggles with the key and the app, and…
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Sheffield Bound (Again)
Another road trip. The Polestar 2 is racking up the miles! Sheffield. It’s quite far from Plymouth, but don’t let that put you off! Many places are. It’s sort of the deal with living at one extreme corner of the United Kingdom. Sheffield is a vibrant city with a surprising amount of green space, and…
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Liverpoolestar (is that anything?)
Screw your CCS cable to the sticking place… I am in Liverpool for a conference and the two realistic transportation options were to take the train, or drive myself. You probably realise by now that I’m a big advocate of both active travel and public transport. Getting cars off the road makes things better for…
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Electric Life (Driving and Biking)
Something has come over me. A transformation of sorts. I think I like driving. I did something I had never done before. I drove my car to…nowhere. That’s right, I took a journey just for the sake of because I like driving this car so much. The Polestar 2 has converted me, and it’s really…
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Do Android Sheep Dream of Electric Cars?
This one is a little delayed, but it hasn’t exactly been a normal week. What possessed me to try and do a long journey in an electric car, you might ask? Perhaps I just needed a distraction. You can’t ask a gadget fan if they’d rather have a Polestar 2 or a Vauxhall Astra. It’s…
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