Electric Car's

Electric Car's may soon be available with a cash incentive to buy them, of up to £5000. But the cost of them is over £5000 more than a standard car.

Ok, you can argue that they benefit the environment by not creating the carbon emissions like petrol & diesel engines. But do they? And what other cost's go with them?

Like, how and where do you charge them? You need a insulated and waterproof power point outside your home, can you charge at petrol stations on motorway services? I knwo there are charge points in London, but where else?

Servicing - will it be main dealer only? What will that cost?

And, on the environmental point - the car may not create the emissions, but if everyone converst to electric cars, how much of an increase in demand will there be on teh national grid? Resulting in more power being needed, so the power stations having to produce more, and maybe more power stations, casuing a bigger drain on the coal & oil reserves and the power stations themselves creating a bigger carbon footprint.

So will there be a saving?