And finally, our own John Long has been trialling what’s being billed as the latest thing in urban green transport, an electric scooter.

All he had to do was plug in the eScoota and go, and since the Blueprint team tend to be based at East Midlands Development Agency (emda) where green energy comes out of the sockets from Nottingham’s own nearby power plant, switching to two wheels was a neat way to manage his carbon footprint.

John has been zipping around Nottingham, and enjoying a shorter commute time, and says: “I think the escoota is great. It makes virtually no noise, produces no CO2 emissions, and doesn’t cost a penny on road tax.” The scooter costs just eight pence to charge up from empty through a standard 13-amp plug socket, which gives a range of up to 30 miles.

http://www.escoota.com/