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The last panel discussion of the weekend at #EverythingElectricNorth - “How do we make battery electric vehicles accessible for everyone?”

Matthew Adams of REA, Richard Mallender of Energy Saving Trust, Martin Revill of Urban Foresight, hosted by Imogen Bhogal.

Talking about physical #accessibility, how to make the charging network understandable and physically easy, plus financial accessibility.
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Love this from Charles Ainger of Lune Valley Community Land Trust - they and a few other people near them own an EV together, overcoming the “I don’t have a home charger” issue as one of them does, and also avoiding the need for several low-mileage users to buy a car vs being able to properly share one.
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Quentin Willson also talks of the carrot approach - more benefits for micro cars could include free parking, drive in a bus lane, and so on. Drive change with very low cost legislation. #EverythingElectric #EverythingElectricNorth #Rightsizing

Brilliant talks at #EverythingElectricNorth today too - #ElectricVanMan Paul Kirby is talking to Jack Scarlett here about the problems with ever more giant cars, and how to give people reasons to do something different.

“Rightsizing: time to shrink our overweight vehicles?” #EverythingElectricNorth #EverythingElectric

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Look what we won at the #OctopusEnergy stand on their (brilliant #marketing) spin the wheel! Both the teeny and big octopus toys 😁 They call him Constantine, and he’s adorable. And 100% recycled 😍🐙

The stand was so popular even the rival energy companies were coming over to have a go!

As Jack Scarlett says, the mega-sized Merc EV cars with 150kW batteries are an ‘eco disaster’ not efficient. Consumer trend towards SUVs needs a policy perspective to limit this, argues Dr Euan McTurk.
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Interesting point from Nodum (EV charging) - underfunding of U.K. local authorities/councils has caused problems for them unveiling new infrastructure as there often aren’t the people to speak to to enable what is needed. Another aspect of U.K. government holding back innovation and #energytransition.
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And Climate Intelligence Unit is saying that there actually aren’t technological barriers to the #GreenTransition - it’s #misinformation that is their big worry and is holding us back. Already telling off journalists who are writing misinformed articles! #EverythingElectric #EverythingElectricNORTH #energytransition