I Have Always Been Very Skeptical About Claims Made For Electric Cars,

and it appears I have reason to be, the first question that I ask is how much does it cost to scrap the batteries in these cars in an environmentally friendly way? no answerer's to that one so I guess it would be a lot, next zero emission's - no way! sure low CO2 locally where the car is driven, but in reality if you look at the fuel of electric cars and how it is produced the gap between diesel engine cars and electric ones CO2 output is close and getting closer, at last some one has decided to tell part of the truth about these sometimes twice the price of diesel engined cars,

it has all come out in the Which? report, it noted, 'the common manufacturer claim that electric cars produce ‘zero emissions’ ignores the fact that most drivers use a conventional electricity supply to charge them, which has a carbon cost from burning fossil fuels,' to test its theory, Which? looked at three of the first electric cars destined to hit the UK market and put them up against three 'efficient' conventional rivals, experts found, for example, that the electric Smart Fortwo, expected to cost around £21,000, creates an 'equivalent' of 84 grams of CO2 per kilometre driven, whereas the £9,540 diesel Smart Fortwo emits 103 grams, the conclusion by experts at Which? 'sometimes there’s not a great deal of difference, and the gap is narrowing as 'conventional' cars up their game to cut emissions,'

off course if you factor in 'cheap' electricity like wind farms it gets worse, only two days ago Energy secretary Chris Huhne has reopened a wind farm capable of offering green power to around 7,000 homes, it only cost £11,800,000 to reopen it, that means that each of the 7,000 homes has been subsidized to the tune of £1,685! this cost does not include the cost of opening the original wind farm, just the make over, the farm will produce 9.2 MW, naturally this figure is if the farm is running at full capacity, no wind = no electricity, so back to nuclear or fossil then, so for me stick to diesel, especially with the price of electricity out here!