Berlingo
I obtained my Berlingo in 2005 from Drive Electric. It was sold as running but with problems, and there began my learning experience!
After a month in service, I've not had to drive my other (lpg powered) car at all. I's been doing about 50 miles per day on average, it's been as far south as Edinburgh and as far north as Blair Atholl from our location in Fife, and has been carrying all sorts of loads that were too big or inconvenient to fit in the car. It keeps up with traffic on most roads well, although I stick to the slow lane on the motorway. I will be taking accurate energy recordings, but so far it seems to take about 500Wh per mile (measured at the mains) - more than I expected, but probably reasonable for a big van and still very economical at less than 3p per mile, and it's running on a renewable energy tariff when charged at home (RSPB Energy).
My van now has 4 years and around 50,000 miles of emission free driving on it - 73,000 in total (as of March 2009)
For servicing I developed the evLite diagnostic tool, available here
To improve the usefulness, I built a fast charger which requires a 63A 230V supply. This is shown in the photo below. It can recharge the batteries in about one hour.
