...our neighbours sometimes used to take their kids all of 1/4 mile to school in their BMW X5 (usually when raining to give them a modicum of credit). The thing is, they have just bought an electric car, and they used it this morning for said school run without a cloud in the sky. It could be the excitement of the new car, but what if the slightest sense of guilt they might have had about driving 1/4 mile in a huge 4x4 is now replaced by misplaced zero emissions complacency ? As if the traffic isn't bad enough already, will the roads soon be clogged up with electric cars 'just popping down the road' without any need to consider the cost and consequences of hydrocarbon fuel ? (and yes I know the emissions just appear somewhere else, but do the people driving them realise this ?). I'm not a bearded lefty environmentalist, I just don't want my road space invaded by these people ! EV3 drivers excluded of course !
