Are electric cars the real answer to reducing air pollution?

THE Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy office has stated that by 2032 all cars will be electric. My career was spent in the power industry, so I know this proposition is absurd. The amount of energy needed to charge the batteries of 31 million vehicles overnight would be dozens of times higher than the available power that is being generated today. JOHN WHITE, Banbury, Oxon. DO MPs intend to use the hot air coming out of the Houses of Parliament to produce all the extra power needed to run electric cars? PHIL HAYWOOD, Helston, Cornwall. ON THE face of it, the proposal that all vehicles will be electric by 2032 would seem a great idea. However, has the Government considered that as well as greatly increasing the power generation capacity to cater for overnight charging, the country’s