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No charge in electric cars

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

Imagine ordering a population to evacuate from the path of a hurricane if they only had electric cars to drive. That is one of the scenarios posed to the many acolytes of the new electric car religion that they would prefer not to consider.

As electric car sceptics have pointed out, the ordered evacuation of an estimated 12 million residents of Florida from the path of Hurricane Irma in mid-September would have been all but impossible if the use of electric cars had been widespread.

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