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HYBRID
The power of
GREEN
& ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Maverick Diagnostics’ Managing Director Andy Brooke is a self-confessed petrol head. If he can learn to live with, and even love, EVs, you can too!
: part one
I
clearly remember the day I started to hate EVs. I had gone with a friend to pick up her daughter from a private school in Chester, only to find the Range Rovers and Porsches driven by the au pairs and nannies had suddenly been replaced with (yes, you guessed it): Teslas. Here we go, I thought, saving the planet at a mere 100k a pop, that’s not going to work, it’s just one big exclusive club. How wrong I was! Eight years later, I still collect old 80s and 90s turbo cars, we at Maverick sponsor and work on a drag racing team, I still do a bit of hill climb racing in my homebuilt, supercharged special and we sponsor a certain touring car driver (Mr Rowbo), so nothing would appear to have changed.
Look a bit closer and it has all changed. My perspective about motorsport and the internal combustion engine car and the future of the UK’s automotive industry has altered completely, and my daily driver is an entirely different matter altogether. A few years ago, I was watching an episode of Jay Leno’s garage; Jay is a man after my own heart and undeniably one of the world’s biggest petrol heads. He made a very interesting comment: “internal combustion cars will become like the horse”. He went on to explain: “100 years ago horses were our main means of transportation, in our era horses are a hobby or for sport, this will be the same for the internal combustion cars of today. In the next decade, everyday cars will
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