V2L: How my electric car saved my family holiday in a blackout

As if the rain and gales weren’t bad enough, Storm Boelo had another unpleasant surprise for the start of our group holiday in the Lake District this half-term: a 30-hour power cut.

But this enabled our first-ever use of the vehicle-to-load (V2L) function on our Renault Scenic. Suddenly we were the saviours.