Electric vehicles explained

• You have the freedom to charge at home, at work or on the go. Charging points can be found at many supermarkets, leisure centres, car parks and dedicated vehicle charging hubs.
• A searchable map of the UK’s ever-growing network of public charging points can be found at www.zap-map.com
• It’s easiest to have an electric car charge-point fitted at your home, but all electric cars can be plugged in with a regular 3-pin socket
• Many vehicles have rapid charge ability, where a 20-minute charge can replenish the battery to 80%

• Electric cars are extremely cheap to run, even with the increase in electricity prices in the UK, most EVs are charged at home or in the workplace. Charging can be as cheap as 7.5p per kWh, which works out at around 2p per mile fuel costs. We bet your petrol, diesel or hybrid can't do that...
• Once registered with TfL, you can travel in and out of London for free as all Electric Vehicles are exempt from the London Congestion Charge
• Because they have fewer moving parts, electric cars require less maintenance and are less likely to go wrong than conventional powered vehicles.

• You can do your bit for the planet by switching to a tailpipe emission-free electric car to reduce your carbon footprint.
• Electric cars don’t use any petrol or diesel so don’t emit any tailpipe emissions or greenhouse gases.
• Vehicle emissions are destroying our environment and are seriously harmful to our health.
• Every car that is replaced with an electric vehicle contributes a CO2 saving of around 133.1g/km. If every car on the road was an electric car, we’d all benefit from cleaner air in our lungs
• As the UK's national grid becomes less reliant on fossil fuels, the CO2 emissions used to generate electricity falls - making EVs even more plant-friendly

If you live in an urban environment – which four out of five of us now do – then you are exposing yourself to a cocktail of airborne pollutants that could be seriously damaging your health. According to one study, if you live in a “major city” then the air pollution you suck into your lungs each day could be shortening your life expectancy even more than the radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

The World Health Organisation reports that transport-related air pollution causes a wide range of health problems including “cancer, adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, and lowering of male fertility”.

Remember EVs don't emit anything nasty from their tailpipes - they don't have them!