Rampant is a subjective term that is probably best left to my wife's imagination, but in the meantime:
In the dim and distant past Mr Selwyn Francis Edge, star salesman of Napier fame, described the sound of crankshaft flex as 'Power Rattle'; since then the automotive industry has used all kinds of trickery to lull the unwary into parting with cash, with EV's being the latest example.
We might have global warming now, but the media didn't run live reports on the end of the ice age!
We might have international pressures applied to combat the greenhouse effect, but China has continued to build coal fired power stations which negate the benefits of EV's they produce.
The combined 'green savings' of UK EV's is too small to make any difference to global temperatures.
The motor industry has been given moving targets for EV production because policy makers at home and abroad differ on critical milestones and strategies to achieve them.
The 'good and the great' have fleets of cars and private jets at their disposal while they tell the rest of us to be more considerate of environmental issues.
Etc, etc, etc.
So, for now everyone is just riding the EV gravy train and making money while they can. That's not a luddite view, just a dose of realism in a world where smoke and mirrors are the norm; if there was true international intent to reduce global warming, the effort would go elsewhere. Motorists are an easy target - and guaranteed cash cow.
, no oil changes, no clutches, no gearbox and you don't use the brakes much so they last for ever.
