), and our colleagues in the EV press do the same. We know whereof we speak—we’ve owned EVs for years, and we regularly speak with industry experts about the challenges of e-mobility.
Automakers, which want consumers to buy their EVs, and governments, which are spending taxpayer money to promote EVs, need to do much more to educate the driving public. The UK’s Department for Transport has taken a step in the right direction with a new publication entitledFor better or for worse, I’ve become something of a professional EV-myth debunker, and my expert assessment of this publication is that it’s quite good.
The writers succinctly dispose of no less than 19 common bugaboos. Not enough range? 99% of car journeys in England are under 100 miles, and there are over 20 models available in the UK market with over 200 miles of range. Does building an EV generate more emissions than it saves? Actually, no. “This has been debunked in numerous well-respected studies.” Batteries wear out after five years? Not a bit of it.