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Harbury e-Wheels in line for Bags of Help from Tesco

After a wait of several months Harbury e-Wheels, a charitable off-shoot of HEI working with All Saints Church Harbury, has been shortlisted for the public vote in store in Southam Tesco. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of up to £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from carrier bag sales …

February update

[This was very first published in the Harbury and Ladbroke News] I would like to feel that I have a growing loyal readership antsy to pore over my monthly contribution but I know I am almost certainly deluded in that. The reality is more likely that it may be some ease to you that I don’t have fairly so much to …

What did we do in 2016?

On the road four hundred seventy five bookings, 1,450 hours of use, 11,500 miles of journey, Five.6 tonnes of carbon saved with nil NOx or hydrocarbon emissions isn’t a bad begin for the very first eighteen months of a slightly ambitious and experimental rural car club scheme. From the moment that we launched e-Wheels, however, this has steadily overtaken and supplanted private use of …

Plugging in for charity

This blog very first appeared on E-Car Club’s website http://www.e-carclub.org In Harbury village you will find one of E-Car Club’s smallest hubs. Nestled behind our community run library and cafe, two Renault Zoes wait for users. They don’t have to wait too long because Harbury Energy Initiative, which won a competitive grant in two thousand fourteen from the Department for Transport’s Developing Car Clubs …

SUPPORT HARBURY LIBRARY PV PROJECT

Use the button above to pledge as much our as little as you like for the HEI village library project. We are bidding to the M&S Energy Community Fund for £12,500 to put solar panels on the roof. This will serve not only the library and its many users but also the Pre-School and the electrified car club. Vote for Harbury …

Reconciling a Wounded Planet® and e-Wheels two hundred

Trevor (not his real name) is registered blind. To go shopping in his local supermarket requires a four hour journey and several bus switches, no effortless matter for a blind person. e-Wheels carried him to the supermarket in a matter of minutes; it is just two and a half miles from his home. Our free green transport, using the electrical cars …

The Polar Race Against Time

A group of courageous explorers, led by Warwick university explorer-in-residence Mark Wood, has now arrived in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, after months of training for a four hundred seventy nautical mile dash from the geographic North Pole across the Arctic to the Canadian Arctic coast in just thirty five days. They had planned to begin this journey from the Canadian Arctic coast, but after the ice was found …

We need your help – won’t take long

HEI would welcome your feedback. We want to evaluate the electrical car club with the objective of adapting, improving and developing the initiative in the longer term. Your feedback is valuable and your input is truly appreciated. What we are doing is experimental; there are few, if any, other village based electrified cars clubs in England. We need your help …

E-Wheels very first one hundred

People keep telling us what a good idea our e-Wheels is. Yesterday two people came up from London to film us in freezing weather. By 4pm, after six hours of standing around in a bitterly cold north wind, there was slightly less of the warm glow of satisfaction left but still pride in what we have achieved. So far we have …

Tale of the unexpected

I can’t claim it’s a miracle but it was a little unexpected. We were in the school with a contractor assessing the requirements for HEI’s plans to switch the entire school over to LED lighting. We had been puzzled, looking at the school’s annual electrical play bill, at how much use there was on the night tariff, so Ted had asked the …

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