In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Alan Braggins wrote:
Could someone explain to me how electric cars reduce congestion?

Electric cars reduce congestion by being small and over-priced, so there
are fewer of them :-)

More seriously, they're generally more efficient in stop-start traffic
^^^^^^^^^
than IC engines (no idling)

Lots of modern IC engined cars stop their engines if left to idle then
start them again automatically when you make to move off.

And lots don't, and some have switches to do it that their drivers don't
use, and they still need energy to get started and have a mininum working
speed. IC cars with low CO2 emissions don't reduce congestion either, but
also get a discount on the congestion charge.