BBC Stages BMW Mini E to Scotland, Tesla Takes The Challenge

The BBC is well aware that David is on Brian’s tail. Actually, David appears to be well ahead of Brian, who is somewhere in southern Scotland.

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The BBC is currently airing a four-day hit piece about EVs, using a BMW MiniE to drive from London to Edinburgh. The Beeb’s venerable technology correspondent Brian Milligan is on TV, online and tweeting about how onerous, time-consuming and inconvenient EVs are – the worries, the range anxiety, the moldy charging stations that haven’t seen any customers in three years. It focuses exclusively on BMW, and the imagery is pretty pathetic and the series has become quite controversial.

                                                                                                             

Electric vehicle company Tesla aimed to prove them wrong, with help from UK EV advocate and engineer David Peilow. In a 21st century rendition of “David vs. Goliath” (or more appropriately, David vs. the BBC), the engineer hopped in a Roadster at Tesla’s London store on Wednesday morning and got to Edinburgh that night. Unlike the TV series, David accomplished the trip with no worries, no range anxiety, no drama. This may be the first time that an electric vehicle has driven from London to Edinburgh in a single day.

 

Upon his arrival last night, the first Tesla owner in Scotland was there to meet David.

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Carbon Nation

"Here's a movie that doesn't even care if you believe in Climate Change...," that's the tagline for Carbon Nation, a new documentary slated for release in L.A. on February 18th.

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

"I just want clean water and clean air. It's that simple," says a geothermal engineer.

"A full employment economy based on retrofitting the nation,"

"You don't have to believe in climate change or terrorism or any of that to want to drive a vehicle at 10% of the cost of what you're driving now."

"It's the most patriotic thing you can do, think or feel today. Green. It's the new red, white and blue." 

Film is by Peter Byck. 

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