Irma’s shocking truth about electric vehicles

FIRST thing to go when big storms hit is power. As Hurricane Irma did her worst, an estimated five million Floridians were without electricity. In the Caribbean, it may be months before some people are reconnected to the grid. Now imagine if the emergency services were reliant on electric vehicles. You could lie in the sodden, shattered remnants of your home for weeks comforted only by the knowledge that the local fire department’s carbon footprint is really low and that, as soon as all the power lines are re-erected, they can finally get charged up and out to help…