On 09/12/2019 12:55, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
GB wrote:
There are electric cars that are good for 300 miles between charges.
Allegedly.

Yup. And my car can do 35mpg on paper. But never does manage that over a
tank of fuel.


I'm sure that's true. The funny thing is that many of the people who
have bought electric cars absolutely love them. A friend of ours
regularly drives his Tesla from London to Liverpool, a distance of 220
miles. He manages it without trouble, including in the winter, when he
has the heater on.

The car has a lot of benefits for long straightforward journeys like
that. It's quiet. It stays in lane. It checks blind spots if overtaking.
It brakes automatically. It's not sensible to regard it as automatic
driving, but it takes away a lot of the strain.

Apart from it being quiet and accelerating like the clappers, none of
those features have anything to do with it being an electric car, by the
way.