Living A simple green Life: Milkfloats / Electric vehicles Diesel the next thing to be ditched on our journey to a simple debt free life.I am on a wee journey to ditch Diesel and the goal is to get a wee electric milflot and add wind and solar panels to it , giving it and unlimited mileage and doing away with having to connect to the mains …

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Welcome to my wee blog.My name is Andy ( The Dafthermit ) . For the last 20 odd years i have ben trying to get back to a simpler way of life and finally in my old bus up here in the Scottish mountains i am finally getting there. My time now is spent taking pictures of the highlands ,making films to show the world the beauty all around and writing something that has surprised me having had a few of my stories published , Having picked up a camera and laptop in 2008 i have really enjoyeed the journey the camera has taken me on again having had a couple of pictures in national magazines, last year three of ,my films where shown at the Loch Ness film festival. anyway i hope you enjoy your visit to my wee blog

love and light

Andy

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Milkfloats / Electric vehicles Diesel the next thing to be ditched on our journey to a simple debt free life.I am on a wee journey to ditch Diesel and the goal is to get a wee electric milflot and add wind and solar panels to it , giving it and unlimited mileage and doing away with having to connect to the mains …

NO TAX NO MOT ( magic)

I am on a wee journey to ditch Diesel and the goal is to get a wee electric milflot and add wind and solar panels to it , giving it and unlimited mileage and doing away with having to connect to the mains …

Two main questions hurled at electric cars
Length of journey and charging points ?
If Solar panels and windpower is installed no limit to mileage and no need to hune mains/charging points ( really annoying the energy companied trying to make a small fortune of us..

MOTt :
I am sick to death of the ever increasing prices demanded by the MOT staion and the new rules rolled oot every year

TAX : just a complete RIP OFF

Insurance : sick of paying inflated insurance costs even though i have over 16 years no claims

Milkfloat insurance company/quotes

Another great site (many thanks Steve in Ireland)

Steves Electric UK click here

SEEVS have a selection of new and used electric vehicles for sale. We provide silent, economical and environmentally friendly vehicles, which are all fully serviced and maintained.
All vehicles can be built to a customers' specification. Take a look at our new and used vehicle pages to see some of the examples we have for sale.
Vehicles available are:

Refurbished/recycled milk floats
Industrial tugs
Golf buggies, personnel carriers
Pedestrian control vehicles

Electric Vehicle Specialists

Here are some UK-based milk float, electric vehicle and battery specialists. Please mention Milk Float Corner when responding to advertisements.
Note: Milk Floats For Sale have now moved to a separate page.
CBL Electric Vehicles
Bampton
Oxfordshire
Tel - 01993 850714
D & A Electric Vehicles
R/O 18c Fairfield Road
West Drayton
Middlesex
UB7 8EX
Tel - 01895 444543
Email - electricvehicles@aol.com

Wide range of electric vehicles for sale
Over 1000 second hand cells and numerous chargers also in stock
Maintenance and repair of EVs

Electrocare Ltd

Unit B The Rearing Site
Oldbury Lane
Oldbury on Severn
Thornbury
Bristol
BS35 1RF
Tel - 01454 411773/4
Fax - 01454 281373
Web - http://www.electro-care.co.uk/

Sales of electric vehicles ranging from pedestrian controlled vehicles to tow tractors to milk floats
Spare parts new and used for Morrison, Smiths, W&E and Harbilt - if we dont have it in stock, we will try our hardest to source it.

M & P Electrics
14/15 Cam Square
Wilbury Way
Hitchin
Herts, SG4 0TZ
Mobile - 07831 232811
Fax - 01462 441252
Web - http://www.mpeservice.co.uk/

Service and repair
Supply and install batteries and chargers

PowerCell Industrial Battery Engineers
Unit 7, Concord Farm
School Road
Rayne
Essex
CM77 6SP
Tel - 08432 893982
Web - http://www.powercell.co.uk/

Supply and install industrial batteries, including milk float batteries, chargers and accessories

PSS Electric Vehicle Spares
28 Wennington Road
Southport
Merseyside
PR9 7ER
Mobile - 07540 636490
Email - jackcoolz@hotmail.com
Steve's Electrics
16 Fairland Close
Llantrisant
Pontyclun
Mid Glamorgan
South Wales
Tel - 01443 227330
Mobile - 07966650641
Web - http://www.steveselectrics.co.uk/

Service and repairs to all electric vehicles
Sales, service and repair of all traction batteries
Wide range of second hand parts and vehicles

Just some examples of vehicles i have found on the wee journey:

love this wee one

ooooooooooh and this

Love and light from the wee rusty tin can here in the Scottish highlands............ Alba gu brath

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A wee film about us on STVs the HOUR SHOW click on STV logo to see the film

Andy the Daft Hermit lives 45 minutes outside Inverness with his wife Mel in an old bus parked in a layby. This current home of theirs is the longest they have ever stayed in one spot. “I’ve been travelling now 25 years,” said Andy Lowe. “Mel’s been travelling 15. One of the reasons we’ve come and stayed up here is because of Mel’s health. I wanted to bring her to the mountains for fresh air and clean water and just a slower pace of life.” Mel has had breast cancer twice, skin cancer once, and for three years believed she had bone cancer after being wrongly diagnosed. Andy’s belief in the restorative powers of the north made them pack up ‘The Black Bus’ that they live in and cross the border into Scotland. New Highland home for hermit couple Andy and Mel “I think we both believe in trying to get to a more simple way of life,” said Andy, “but it’s strange for us because we are sort of hermits, or we like to live separate, but it’s not being anti-social… it’s just the way we are that allows us to be creative.” Andy first began travelling when he left the army. Fed up with bureaucracy he packed a rucksack and left for France and has been travelling ever since. By investing any money the couple have earned into solar panels and wind generators they now live a self-sustaining existence, without electric bills, and collect rain water “straight from Heaven”. “It’s not easy,” said Mel. “There might be time when there might not be enough facilities around, but you always find a way, you know?” Rather than rejecting technology, Andy blogs about his travels online and collaborates with artists from around the world via his ‘Scratchy Heid Film Studio’, which he runs from a static trailer next to the couple’s bus. He explained his philosophy: “My belief is that if you can go through life and you drop dead and you’ve got a balance there that slightly outweighs the good than the bad, you’ve done alright. “Yesterday, with what Mel’s been through with the cancer and all that, I had a woman on one of my sites there that thanked me for the writing, for the positive things, and to me that’s worth everything. You can keep your millions, we’re not interested. That is what we do.” To check out Andy’s artwork and video projects check out his website. MORE FROM THE NORTH