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Here it is kids, my dream!!

You might be able to charge your next EV while on the road - Roadshow

You lucky Colorado residents!!
These roads need to be solar powered, and should be Big Oil's new Big Investment!![emoji16][emoji16][emoji23][emoji23][emoji41][emoji41]

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Ok it's the Daily Mail so we don't expect them to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

See below.

Here are a few reasons why this is not right. I am sure there are many more.

1. The M.I.T. study is based on U.S. power generation, and climate the vehicles on that basis. This may be true in the U.S. but not necessarily elsewhere. But it is a politically decided fact about electricity supply rather than an inevitable fact about electric cars. The same newspaper campaigns for low electricity prices and against wind farms!
2. The Mail article says that 51% of the energy generated in the UK and used to power an electric car is from fossil fuels such as coal and gas. This figure is about right in terms of current uk electricity generation mix nationally, but it is not at all true to say that this is necessarily the mix that goes into every electric car. For example, most of the car charging points that I see at motorway service stations are run by Ecotricity, which is a...