Everybody lives their life differently, and we all have different priorities for the choices we make in everyday life. If you commute to work you are presented with many different methods you can achieve the same goal, which is essentially getting you from home to work and back again each day. The typical choices are car, bus, rail, motorbike, bicycle, walk and now there is the electric vehicle. For the first time since their inception, electric vehicles have become a viable, cost efficient and practical alternative.

Electric vehicles are no longer like the milk float, they can be very quick like the Tesla sports car, or they can perform on a par with normal every day vehicles like the tried and tested 50cc scooter, and the choice of modern electric scooters is vast and varied. You can opt for performance at the expense of range, or you can go for range over performance, some are big like the Vectrix Maxi scooter, and some are very small like the Razor E200S.

Foldable stand-on scooters, like the Razor E300 are ideal if you want to get into car sharing, you pop the scooter in your sharing partner's boot, and they just drive to their workplace as normal, when you get there simply un-fold hop on and zoom off to your workplace. You've got that extra bit of flexibility in case you need to pop to the shops for a sandwich or to post a few letters, and taken one of the biggest objections to car sharing and turned it into a fun plus point.

You can also use the foldable scooters to get from a carpark to your workplace, and if there's one a little further away that's cheaper you can save money in the process.

However there is a downside to stand-on electric scooters. Under the Road Traffic Act 1988 it would be an offence to ride one on the public roads or pavement as it is classed as a motor vehicle, and you could recieve up to 6 points and a hefty fine if caught. There are moves to have the law changed, but that takes time and political will. Although it isn't an offence to draw or propel a vehichle by hand close to the near side or left-hand edge of the carriageway. If the motor is off, the question remains as to whether it is a motor vehicle at all since you do have the option to "scoot" should you so wish. I'm not sure how the law would view this, so please note that you have been warned.

In the UK cars are the most popular choice for commuting to and from work, and the most commonly cited reason for that is the weather. Other advantages that are offered by a car are the load carrying capability, additional protection for the driver and passengers and luxuries like music and air conditioning. What people don't realise is that they don't need an internal combustion engine to achieve any of this, you can have it all with electric and a load more too. Lower pollution, lower servicing costs, much lower running costs, zero vehicle excise duty, no congestion charge and an enhanced sense of wellbeing because you know you are wasting less and contributing less to global warming or climate change.

So let's look at what you actually need in a commuter vehicle, firstly most people commute alone and rarely is the distance more than 25 miles each way. You may want to pop to the shops at lunchtime, or need to pick someone up from a train station or airport occasionally. For the majority of use your car needs two seats, a boot or hatchback, and a range of between 50 and 60 miles per charge. Ideally it will be compact and easy to park, nippy about town and you would like it to look modern and stylish from the outside and be spacious and comfortable on the inside. If you can plug it in to recharge while you are at work you would have no problem with the occasional airport/station collection or trips to the shops, especially if it will charge up between one and three hours.

There are electric cars available now that just about fulfil all those criteria, but right now there is insufficient infrastructure for charging and servicing outside of London. A lot of the current vehicles are far from modern looking or stylish, and interior comfort is pretty poor too. Some great new cars are coming, that have better range and so require less infrastructure support, they're better looking, quicker and more comfortable. Volomoto will be selling the best of these when they become available, and we become bigger and better able to support our customers to the level that we think you should expect.