Plenty of objections have been raised against EVs, chief among them the purchase price

In the early days of the horseless carriage the internal-combustion engine attracted a lot of bad press – not least of all for scaring horses.

And the then-new powertrain technology was also considered smelly, unreliable, unsafe and inconvenient to refuel – because there wasn’t a service station on every street corner.
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