Thinking back I probably sent it to them - I'll check.
Then we popped out in the large German to get 'fuel'. Not that interesting but as it was my first experience of Electric Cars I thought I'd go along to learn all about it. We arrived at the fast charge in Naction and in went the plug. 
Clean, easy, quick and no waiting for the space. However after 10 minutes and several 'fuel' cards we gave up (after working how to get the plug out) and called up the map on the app to look for another one.
But it wasn't. It was more frustrating as neither us nor the other chap (a seasoned electric car owner) could get the (Tesla supplied) units to work. So after breaking up the 'you've got a nice electric car - oh no yours is nice too' bromance developing between the stranded owners, we set off again.
But it is The (well A) future.
That done we set off back over the bridge heading for the brand new GG site at Wherstead. Four units and one person already there so this is better I thought.
Back to Tesco's in fact - well a grubby corner of the deserted 'Park and Ride' that Jeremy had used before. Here it all worked.
It was a fast charge and it even had a nice app thrown up by the QR code we could monitor while we went shopping. Here is the final reading.
So that means we started with 49% capacity and ended with 85%. That cost £24.06 for 30.45 kWh. A new jargon indeed but what does it all mean ?
Well it's totally obfuscated trying to calculate KM/Miles/kWh etc. ppm/kWh/KM etc. The best I can do is that to fill the car was £66 on this commercial charger and the equivalent 70l tank on a diesel would cost £95 but would give you better range making the p/km calculation EV 13ppkm vs the Diesel only 8 p/km. That obviously changes dramatically in favour of the EV when on the low cost home chargers.
So there we are - it was still a beast as I returned from another Harkstead run in the tiny SAAB and parked beside it.
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