A CARBON NEUTRAL COACH HAS FOUND ITSELF STRANDED IN CORNWALL
The Carbon Battle Bus came to Cornwall to tie in with the G7 Summit in Carbis Bay where World Leaders have been discussing climate change and the need to reach targets for zero carbon.
Planet Mark, the organisers of the Zero Carbon Tour, successfully travelled from London to the Eden Project, a distance of 263 miles with one recharge, in the electrically-powered Yutong coach...
But with 60 to 70 miles it has found that there are no serviceable chargers left on the network and the five that they attempted to use in Cornwall were unable to charge the bus.
In Cornwall the electric coach visited the following charging points but were unable to successfully charge the vehicle:
Bodmin Business Park – Genie Point – 50kW – machine not working, despite Zapp Map not reporting an issue.
Bodmin Morrisons – Genie Point – 50kW – recognised the coach but did not deliver the charge.
Kingsley Village – Shell – New Motion – Tritium charger – 170 kW – registered coach and charge left on coach but would not charge
Cornwall Services – Ecotricity – 50 kW – error with the charger, engineer informed but did not work. At 11pm we met a Nissan Leaf driver who had tried three other charging stations experiencing problems.
Eden Project car park – Genie Point – 50 kW – recognised the coach but did not deliver the charge.
