Electric Dreams
Is the time finally right to buy an electric car? Peter Gibbs and Robert Llewellyn hit the highway to discover the pros and cons.
Is the time finally right to buy an electric car? Peter Gibbs has just taken the plunge. We join him on his first road trip to see if Britain really is ready to wave goodbye to diesel and petrol.
He drops in on Robert Llewellyn, Kryten in Red Dwarf and the man behind the electric car Youtube channel, Fully Charged for some initial inspiration and a moan about the difficulties of charging on the road. He checks out the real environmental benefits with Nick Molden from Emissions Analytics. He asks the Gardeners' Question Time panel if they're ready to make the shift and hears from Roads Minister, Jesse Norman and the scientists at Warwick University who are making radical advances in battery technology.
If they really can offer a car with a 300 mile range that can be charged in 10 minutes then the future may very well be electric.
Producer: Alasdair Cross
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