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ELECTRIC VEHICLES (AGAIN)

Some issues back, (Nos. 375 and 379), I brought you up to speed with my concerns on the feasibility or otherwise of owning an electric vehicle, or ‘EV’, as we’re now expected to call them. On YouTube, you can find a compilation of video clips of various EVs, buses included, bursting into flames; exploding; and, in some cases, setting adjacent vehicles on fire.

Meanwhile, the government recently announced that from early next year, road user charges (RUCs) would be levied on EVs. That they have

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