Are your readers aware of all the major issues with electric cars?

Your column has correctly picked up on one of the fallacies of electric cars and you are the only writer that I can find that has told the truth about the disastrous effects on range that heating an electric...

What's best for short distances?

So here’s a question of a technical nature. Need to buy a car, but my current living-employment situation requires that I do several short distances daily. These distances are too far to walk but at the...

Bat men

The only way of making electrically powered vehicles practicable is to have their batteries interchangeable (charged for discharged) at drive-through service stations, requiring less time than it takes...

Diesel, petrol or something else?

My job involves lots of small stop/start journeys (40-50 per day), sometimes only driving a few hundred yards, sometimes a couple of miles and I am using too much petrol in my Nissan Note automatic 1.6....

How do electric cars provide heating for occupants?

Cars with water-cooled internal combustion engines generate so much heat that it has to be dumped to the atmosphere via a radiator. Using this "spare" heat to warm the interior with a second radiator inside...

How do 'green' electric cars generate heat for their occupants?

Another aspect of heating battery driven cars (apart from battery capacity mentioned in your column) is that it is energy that would have to be generated somewhere whereas in a petrol/diesel car it is...

Is it possible to get figures which show the environmental impact of a vehicle over its whole life?

Much is made of the low carbon dioxide emission needed to meet various targets and the drive towards zero emission objectives through all electric vehicles, using technologies such as fuel cells etc. Most...

Is the Mercedes-Benz C-Class SE diesel suitable for lots of short journeys?

I often read your positive comments about the Mercedes-Benz C200CDI Classic SE base model, and your thoughts that this is a solid car probably good for 1,000,000 miles. I am also aware that it is not advisable...

Battery chuck ‘em

I was pleasantly surprised at reading about Renault's intention of developing 'quick drop stations' to swap batteries in their electric cars. For the past two or more years I have been banging on about...

Electric Shocker

You have occasionally commented on electric cars, but I guess you are unlikely to be fully aware of the future influence of such vehicles, specifically their impact within the context of global warming...