I was out for a 250+ miles drive on Saturday, including 100+ miles on the M25. I was surprised at the number of Tesla and Jaguar I-Pace on the M25. None of the drivers, all in the outer one or two lanes, looked particularly stressed about running out of charge.
I think many contributors are incorrectly thinking about electric cars primarily in terms of replacing fossil fuel with an alternative. Yet anyone who drives around our cities will see them also as a means of diluting high concentrations of air pollution in our cities.
Anyone not convinced need only drive along the North Circular and look at the colour of houses that were painted white or cream only a few years ago. The same stuff that has changed the wall colours ends up inside lungs in high concentrations.
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