Recent content by Clive K

We spent a few days in the Lot valley in France last week. The accommodation was a 15th century house in the medieval centre of a small town. We had to park the car on the outskirt of the town as it was almost impossible to get a car to the house. I reckon that there must be around a hundred...

Or instead of relying on a google search you can view the government statistics; https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-final-results-2025/rrcgb-2025-road-safety-factors

Malta have a massive problem in respect of there being far too many cars on their roads. They have several schemes running incuding the obvious subsidising public transport, but they are also buying driving licences off those who hold them and paying young people not to apply for licences...

How much did the solar panels and battery cost? :rolleyes:

Yes. My shed of a car is coming up 17 years old, has covered over 200k miles and is still running perfectly. However, my monthly diesel costs are €200 - €250. It has a 550 litre boot so I don't need to take the dog cage out when I go fishing and has 4WD that allows me to access locations that a...

Yep! AndI drove one for four years. The accelerator was either on or off and it clicked through three power bands using servos. Get it up to 20mph, freewheel, put the selector into reverse and press the pedal. :D 20mph to 0mph in a millisecond even with 700 pints aboard. One of the fleet...

I thought that this was the original ev?

Doesn't that make them late for work?

If you don't we'll just have to imagine it. ;)

From the Cognac region of France with the Leicasonic V-LUX 114

Howard and Marina possibly.

Leicasonic V_LUX 114

Given the time that you spend on here probably none of them :D

I didn't realise that ev owners were exempt from increases in the cost of electricity, heating oil, food, clothing, other daily consumables, air travel and all the other things that will increase along with the cost of motoring fuel, which is in itself quite a small part of the whole. Less than...