​As he says, it’s not a lot but it’s unnecessary and can add up.
He needn’t worry himself about drivers of electric vehicles though. Most modern electric cars would need to have the brake pedal depressed day and night for over four months continuously before they would run out of charge. His concern should really be directed at drivers of petrol and diesel cars.
On these vehicles, despite there being more than 150 years of development, these engines are still only about 30 per cent efficient in their use of energy.
Seventy per cent of the energy in the polluting fuel that powers these cars ends up as heat and noxious gases in our town.

Andrew Parker

Derbyshire