Feeling curiously detached and rather pious on holiday this week in the Cotswolds, because I'm floating about in an all-electric Volkswagen e-Up, the one VW about which unhappy stuff is unlikely to be abruptly revealed. It's a terrific car, and ultra-practical now we have the proper Chargemaster arrangement in our garage. However, plans to do a 190-mile round trip in it to London (Bond movie, don't you know) hit the buffers because I don't yet have an Ecotricity account, and these are the guys whose 'electricity pumps' I'd need to use in the motorway service areas.
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