Clean and green, but an electric car can give a driver some shocks
by Jemima Kiss from on (#M000)
California's ambitious target is a million zero-emission cars; along the way some charging issues need to be sorted out
A freeway in California, late afternoon rush hour. Most of the traffic is doing 65mph; I'm in a new electric VW eGolf at the end of a long drive and the dashboard tells me I have zero miles of range left. Zero miles. I'm just one week into electric car ownership and already mischievously seeing how far I can push it - and in a few more miles that may be literal.
The car kicks into emergency mode, the ominous glowing tortoise of doom appears on the dash and the car slows to 25mph. I crawl off at the next junction.
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