The first one is that electric vehicles are non-polluting. Sorry folks – all that happens is that the energy to charge their batteries gets produced elsewhere, very often by fossil-fuel burning power stations, so it simply shifts the blame as to who is creating atmospheric pollution.

If the power is from a nuclear source, what that creates is extremely toxic waste that needs to be stored safely for hundreds of thousands of years.

And let’s not think about how much energy is consumed in the manufacturing process for these new vehicles, let alone the source of it.

Another issue is that high-capacity battery technology is sourced from heavy metals, which has its own ramifications of safe disposal or recycling when the batteries need replacing.

Back to the drawing board again?