Summary of the day’s journey

Hi, Gareth here. So my primary role here is to bore you all with stats. From time to time I may entertain you with my word smithery. Having an electric car always throws up questions from shall we say ‘non believers’ so hopefully this will help.

Now I may be 45 but my right foot is still heavy and my arse still gets sweaty so I do not drive with efficiency in mind. I like to get a move on when I can and the air con is on keeping the temperature how we like it.
When we left home we had a range of 324 miles at 100% charge. Mercedes claim you can get around 380 miles but the best I have had is 350 or so. This would have been just enough to make it to our hotel at Faversham which ended up at 290 miles due to diversions. We have decided to take whatever detour the sat nav recommends whenever the traffic gets heavy.
However, as we needed a wee we thought we would add some charge so we stopped at Cobham services which has 18 super chargers. Half of these chargers were empty so we plugged the car in and left it to do its thing. At this point we had 22% charge and just over 65 miles left. After weeing and walking around M & S and WH Smiths to find something to eat for Elliott who then decided he wasn’t hungry, we went back to the car. 10 mins had passed and 110 miles had been added, more than enough to get us to Faversham Premier Inn.

When we arrived at the hotel, we plugged in to one of the 10 chargers to get a full tank of electric for tomorrow.

For efficiency fans we averaged 3.1 miles per kilowatt hour (m/kwh)Read more