PHOEBE Harper produces a rather rosy-tinted feeling in her suggestion of everyone taking an electric car/camper tour (Why your next Highland road trip should be an electric one, Aug 8). While these vehicles are in a minority and smug niche at the moment, reality will bite very quickly unless sufficient charging infrastructure is in place around our road network.
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How many times did she have to queue for an hour or so waiting for a charger to become available? Exhorting us to use EVs is great, but until they can be effectively used by the majority of road users it is pointless. Energy (pun intended) should be expended in ensuring that the means to use them is in place, along with contingency alternatives, instead of extolling the virtues of the vehicles.
The power cuts of Storm Arwen should serve as a caution for what happens if we go all electric. At least during that time we could run fossil-fuelled generators and drive around collecting supplies and so on.
Nick Cole
Meigle, Perthshire
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