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It’s good news that electric car sales are sluggish

Paul Withrington, Director, Transport-Watch, Northampton NN2
22 January 2016
 

What a mercy it was to read that the market for electric car is failing (ibid). If that were not the case where on earth would the electricity come from? If road transport were wholly electrified then electricity generation would have to increase by 40% to 50%. And that at a time when the Government is to pay dirty diesel generators to fill the hole in the UK’s generating capacity so as to meet winter demand!  

Worse still, the energy burnt in power stations would probably exceed...

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