If you’ve walked around Luton town centre lately you might have noticed two very smart looking new cars plugged into previously unused charging points.
The arrival of the two Nissan Leaf cars are the result of a partnership between Luton Borough Council and the electric car club E-Car, and are available for hire to businesses and the public.
Never having driven an electric car, I was intrigued to see what the Leaf had to offer.
The car’s look were very impressive, a futuristic cross between Nissan’s Micra and Juke with a very smart and spacious interior.
What was very strange was starting up the vehicle and pulling away from the kerb, without it making so much as a peep. You feel like you’re just rolling along rather than motoring, such is the silence, but I guess that’s something you’d quickly get used to.
E-Car seems easy to sign up to, and the process of picking up the car is simple – you scan a card over a reader in the windscreen, enter a code into a reader in the glovebox and unplug it from the charging post.
See how my test drive went at www.lutontoday.co.uk