Alan Braggins wrote:
In article , Bill Wright wrote:
All this does is avoid a small amount of pollution in London at the cost
of causing a lot of pollution in the countryside.

You can make power stations cleaner than you can make vehicle engines,
because making a power station too heavy to move isn't a problem.
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr..._precipitators
and even a 50% CCGT with all the transmissions and battery cycle losses
is still using less fuel than a 27% efficient diesel with no
regenerative braking..