Leaf testers falling for battery cars

SUNDERLAND, England -The journey from being interested in electric cars to being converted to electric-car drivers is now complete for participants in a My Electric Avenue trial.

It's something that could have relevance for South Africa as, perhaps inevitably, battery-powered cars begin to catch on in major cities.

It was a project to see if local power networks could cope with charging a group - a ‘cluster’ - of electric vehicles at peak power demand times. The project is testing new technology that can control car-charging if the local electricity grid becomes overloaded.