High time to power ahead with charging

From: Nigel Pollard, Shadwell, Leeds.

WE have a holiday home on the river Esk in Ruswarp which we have had for about seven years, and we have recently purchased a Mitsubishi plug-in hybrid car.

However there are no charging points within 15 miles of Whitby, the nearest one being at Aldi in Scarborough.

Newly-built supermarkets seem to put charging points in their car parks.

So hopefully when the Aldi is up and running in Whitby there will be charging points provided.

Our car also runs on fuel, but any all-electric car would have problems around the area, and therefore restricted from visiting the area subject to the mileage range of the vehicle.

I wonder if there are any plans to install further points around Whitby, as electric cars are the way forward (Bridget Fox, The Yorkshire Post, August 17).

At the moment it’s a “chicken and egg” situation that people are put off purchasing such a car due to the lack of charging points in certain areas.

Our main home is in Leeds and we have had a charging point installed in our porch, and there are additional ones, which incidentally are free to use, installed in newly refurbished, or built, Aldi and Lidl supermarkets around the area.

We spend nine months of the year coming to Whitby and look forward to being able to charge our hybrid locally.

Come on Whitby – come into the 21st century!