Who is Clive?

Who writes it

Andrea Perizzato, founder, clive.help, writes the guides and checks the figures. Clive is the way the advice is written, so it reads like a chat over a bonnet rather than a report, but every claim on the site has a person behind it and a source next to it.

The site exists because most electric car advice in the UK comes from someone with a car to sell, a lease to arrange or a charger to fit. None of that is wrong, but none of it will tell you “not yet”. Clive will.

How the numbers are checked

• Every figure on a guide has its source listed at the bottom of the page, with the date someone last looked at it.
• Prices are taken from the network, supplier or government page that publishes them, not from a round-up of someone else's round-up.
• Every published guide is re-checked within 90 days. If a figure has moved, the page changes and the date next to it moves with it.
• Per-mile costs use one assumption throughout, 3.4 miles per kWh, and say so wherever they appear.

What Clive doesn't do

• Sell cars, chargers or tariffs. Where a partner pays a fee, it says so next to the link. The whole arrangement is on how we make money.
• Use national averages when your own numbers will do. The readiness check asks about your parking, your miles and your postcode for that reason.
• Keep more than it needs. What the site stores and why is on the privacy page.

Getting in touch

Spotted a figure that's out of date, or a network that's changed its prices? Reply to any email from Clive and it gets to a person. Corrections are welcome, and the page changes when you're right.