Electric vehicles are raring to go

July 24th, 2010

Electric vehicles are the way forward for the transport that we are all addicted to nowadays. From cars to trains to planes, electricity is the clean option! They are all ready and waiting.

Robert Llewellyn is bringing us the new ‘Fully Charged Show’ www.fullycharged.tv Presenting how electric cars are most definitely making a statement.

Robert Llewellyn discusses our addiction to oil and the Electric vehicle solution



Interview with Quentin Willson at the Bridgestone Eco Rally 2010



The Tesla Roadster – As described by owners Part 1

Find out more about The Tesla electric vehicle range on the Tesla website www.teslamotors.com



The Tesla Roadster – As described by owners Part 2

Find out more about The Tesla electric vehicle range on the Tesla website www.teslamotors.com



tesla roadstar

tesla roadstar

Robert Llewellyn’s review of the Honda hydrogen fuel cell FCX Clarity electric vehicle.

Find out more about The Honda FCX Clarity electric vehicle on the Honda website world.honda.com/FuelCell



Robert Llewellyn’s review of the Mitsubishi iMiev electric vehicle.
Find out more about The Mitsubishi iMiev electric vehicle on the Mitsubishi website www.mitsubishi-cars.co.uk/imiev


Mike Brewer lets members of the public drive the i-MiEV

Robert Llewellyn drives the prototype Nissan LEAF

Find out more about The Nissan Leaf electric vehicle on the Nissan website www.nissan.co.uk/electricvehicles/leaf


The NEMESIS Electric Vehicle in development.

Keep up to date with its development on Dale Vince’s Blog zerocarbonista.com

nemesis electric car

nemesis electric car

nemesis electric car 2

nemesis electric car

Electric planes harnessing solar energy are advancing fast.

From www.solarimpulse.com

Solar impulse solar airplane

Solar impulse solar airplane


Electric vehicles are the way forward for the transport that we are all addicted to nowadays. From cars to trains to planes, electricity is the clean option!

As more and more people take the choice to use Electric vehicles, three main cruxes will dictate the future availability and development of Electric vehicles.

  • Storage of Energy – Batteries.
  • Old addictions – Companies that are heavily reliant on profits from old fossil fuels.
  • Source of electrical energy.

The storage of energy in a car is of obvious importance and by making use of advances in mobile phone and laptop battery technologies, electric vehicle battery technology will continue to speed ahead. There are also many vehicles which harness electricity as they move an obvious and sensible move.

From car companies, to fuel suppliers to governments reliant on taxes we are heavily tied to the old system of propulsion – the burning of fossil fuels, so this will take some clever thinking from governments to help with financial incentives to help business change to clean electric vehicles.

An electric vehicle is not that clean if it depends on dirty non renewable sources of electricity to power it. Luckily we have many clean, renewable sources of energy at our disposal nowadays; Solar, Wind, Hydro, Tidal, Wave to name but a few.

Clean energy for electric cars.



We all have the choice of living in the eternal world of old polluting vehicles or stepping forward into the next great era of transportation. Electric transportation.

Posted by Michael Horsnell

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Great Trees of East Devon

June 27th, 2010

From 2005 until 2008, East Devon District Council hosted the Great Trees of East Devon project.

To view the Great Trees of East Devon Website click here

View the videos below.

The Farway Yew

The Salcombe Regis Thorn

The Bicton Monkey Puzzle Tree

The Whimple Wonder

The Phear Park Lucombe Oak

The East Budleigh Mark Tree

The Great Oak at Upton Pyne

The Ginkgo Tree Presented by Sidmouth Men of the Trees and planted by Councillor Arthur White

The Maidenhair Jurassic Tree Ginkgo Biloba Presented by Sidmouth Men of the Trees at the Knowle in Sidmouth Devon

The Maidenhair Jurassic Tree Ginkgo Biloba Presented by Sidmouth Men of the Trees at the Knowle in Sidmouth Devon

Ginkgo Biloba Leaf from the Jurassic Tree Presented by Sidmouth Men of the Trees at the Knowle in Sidmouth Devon

Ginkgo Biloba Leaf from the Jurassic Tree Presented by Sidmouth Men of the Trees at the Knowle in Sidmouth Devon

Monterey pine Pinus radiate at the Knowle in Sidmouth Devon

Monterey pine Pinus radiate at the Knowle in Sidmouth Devon

Hands Across The Sand

June 25th, 2010

26th June is the day of an international campaign to protect shorelines globally against the devastating effects of oil drilling.

Hands Across The Sand in Sidmouth

Hands Across The Sand in Sidmouth

Are you up for showing your support for cleaner oceans? Take a  picture or two on the beach in Sidmouth?

Meet at bottom of steps of Jacobs Ladder at 11:45am

Make a stand against offshore drilling 26th June:

http://bit.ly/NOoffshoreOil

http://www.facebook.com/HandsAcrossTheSand

The image is powerful, the message is simple.  NO to Offshore Oil Drilling, YES to Clean Energy.