An epic fail of EV etiquette

We’ve already got a Renault Zoe that my wife mainly drives and which, being electric, is of course utterly dependent on our wallbox for power.

She selfishly hogs it too. Every time I come home, there’s the Zoe sucking juice out of the house, like a big blue greedy baby, leaving the Grandland hybrid’s batteries flat and desperate for a quick fix to restore its 24 miles of electric range. I’ve got a granny cable which I am running out of the garage, under the door, and is being used as a much slower, trickly, substitute.

On the standard ‘big’ cable, the Grandland takes less than two hours to recharge. On the little one, three times that, though. STEVE MOODY