It is not easy to uncover the truth about EVs. Many detractors heap scorn over the claimed environmental advantages, while over-emphasising shortcomings, as they refuse to let go of their beloved Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs). EVangelists, meanwhile, are blind to electric motoring’s downsides, preferring to dismiss EV critics as Luddites, or worse.
Neither approach is helpful.
CM cannot recall any time in our 64 years’ history that compares with today’s rapid rate of technological change. While there have been exceptions, most new ICE cars
