Buses in for various repairs, mine was here for exhaust repairs at the time pics taken. Great guys, run by two ex ARA professionals!

Henderson | Auckland | New Zealand

Buses in for various repairs, mine was here for exhaust repairs at the time pics taken. Great guys, run by two ex ARA professionals!

Henderson | Auckland | New Zealand

So, remember that wreck we had on the 2008 Strategy Drive? Yeah, this letter's been bouncing around the inter-departmental mail for the past two years.

There was a sobering reminder today at Fleet services M3 southbound of the continuing resistance to the use of electric vehicles. Although this is by no means wholesale, I do not think we are yet at the stage where many people want to find themselves half way along a motorway on a potentially long journey in an electric vehicle. There are many other factors upon which we could discourse.

There are four Ecotricity, general use, bays. None was in use. These are just along from no fewer than twelve Tesla bays which were all officially not in use in spite of being installed some time ago. I might be a bit of a dinosaur but I cannot imagine there being twelve Teslas at Fleet in the near future. Furthermore, and I am sure I shall be corrected if wrong, I find it most unhelpful when manufacturers go down diverse routes. For a technology to be widely accepted and used there needs to be some commonality. We already suffer from the proliferation of types of charger for mobile phones. This should not be repeated with vehicles if the take up is to increase in pace.

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So, remember that wreck we had on the 2008 Strategy Drive? Yeah, this letter's been bouncing around the inter-departmental mail for the past tw oyears.