Our Team
Well EV Matters is a company is a husband and wife team - Brian and Jean Orr from Wokingham, Berkshire. Brian is originally from Belfast, NI; Jean was born in Whitby, N.Yorks - but grew up in Ayrshire.
We are not totally inexperienced in the adventurous pursuits scene and have dabbled in few challenges over the years! Mostly it has been around boats - but we are willing to 'have a go' at most things!
We got into the EV scene almost by accident. We innocently enough bought a Mitsubushi iMiev EV thinking it would be a novel experince. However, we had not considered how much ill-judged rhetoric would come with our un-pretentious little run-about! Comments about being a milk float and golf cart - seemed to be so unjust! I guess the comments from our adult children (with their huge diesel estate cars) - just hit a raw nerve! So the gauntlet was well and truly down and in a rash moment I was heard to say - "right let's take the car around the Scottish Highlands".
In Feb 13, the weather was grim and we knew absolutely nothing about the charging infrastructure - let alone how robust and reliable the car would be. We left, in late March 2013, 'on-a-wing-on-a-prayer' with no experience and little knowledge. However, pulled it off despite snow, ice and freezing temperatures! We still haven't won over our adult children - so we are still 'hanging out there' - but having a fantastic time!
Our Car
In early 2013 the Waitrose and ASDA supermarkets were reliable sources of charging!
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| Fresh our of the Showroom! |
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| Side roads were icy! |
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Greenfleet Scotland - April 2014
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Brian - meeting the Scottish Transport Minister:
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Jean getting into position for Greenfleet 2014
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Bibliography:
Here are some of the reports from our previous exploits:
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