Sustainability

Sex and Electric Vehicles in the City

A little G-Wiz electric car was crawling along the A40 in front of me, making its way into London from the Hangar Lane gyratory. It was a dismal rainy day in November. I recall mild amusement that its tail lights…

The March of Folly

In 1984, writing about the Vietnam War, historian Barbara Tuchman defined “Wooden-headedness” in statecraft as “assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs.” The book in which this assertion appeared, March of…

Are Businesses Ready for EVs?

I don’t know if it was ‘burying’ bad news, but last week the British Government announced out of the blue they were cutting the levels of grant available for those buying new electric cars and vans. Now that the grants…