Transcript
Speaker 1
Hello, I'm Nicola and I've been driving an electric car since 2007. I definitely think of myself as a pioneer.
Speaker 2
Hi, I'm Roy and I've been driving electric cars since 2000. Well, my first experience for electric cars, to be honest, was slot car racing with my brother when I was 10.
Speaker 3
Hi, I'm Warren. I've been an electric car owner since 2016. For me, it was about my daughter. My daughter was born, had some reflections about my life and what I was doing. Yeah, going electric was all part of that.
Speaker 1
For me,. I feel like I'm part of this evolving technology and I'm doing something for the planet.
Speaker 2
The advent of electric cars for me was just dream like because I'm an electronic engineer and a classic car enthusiast, and all of a sudden these two fields have come together and allowed me to build electric classic car.
Speaker 3
We have solar and we have an AC couple battery. We're one of the very first in the country to get one. It is easy and quiet and reliable and powerful and all the things you want.
Speaker 2
The horn’s quite loud, so instead I just do a little <laugh>.
Speaker 1
My children had to get used to being laughed at and pointed at and I would just say, you wait. When the petrol runs out, we'll be laughing.
Speaker 3
I still love fast cars, love all these things. This car is the best car I've ever had. It's 200 brake horsepower. There's 60 in seven seconds and it's a family wagon.
Speaker 2
Went on the London Brighton first EV rally, which is 2021, and I was the only classic car that didn't have to charge up, so that was a bit of a feather in my cap, really.
Speaker 3
The biggest electric car myths I hear them all. It ranges from can you drive it in the wet, can you charge it in the wet through to, you can't go anywhere with them or the batteries only last 10 minutes.
Speaker 1
A couple of times I've stopped outside my brother's house and plugged in through his letterbox, so as long as there's a three pin 13 amp plug around I can manage.
Speaker 3
I plug it in, I go to bed, I get up and the car's charged.
Speaker 2
I absolutely haven't regretted anything about making it electric. It's, it's streamlined.
Speaker 3
If we can do it, so can anyone.
The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Aviva.
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