Time to face up to the electric car revolution | Letters
Your editorial perpetuates a number of myths about electric vehicles (Car drivers are heading into a future far from their dreams, 7 August). You say "Tesla has just started selling its first electric car aimed squarely at the middle classes", reinforcing the views recently posted online by fossil fuel lobby groups that EVs are only for the rich while being subsidised by the poorer. The Tesla 3 is directly cost competitive with similar cars with internal combustion engines and cheaper when including running costs, and there is now a growing second-hand market.
You say Tesla sales are "a remarkable figure for a machine with a fairly short range and a very limited number of specialised charging stations". The Tesla 3 has an EPA rated range of 310 miles - this is not a "fairly short range".
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