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fully charged all in one word at checkout. So hello and welcome and welcome it's and now is just me this week as Johnny is

currently having a look around the Vauxhall E courseer yes Yes, Vauxhall are making an electric

cars out very very soon. But it's not just totally me all the time because

there's going to be an interview with Fiona Howarth coming up. She is the CEO of Octopus Electric

Vehicles, the EV Division of Octopus Energy, a British company that supplies renewable energy to homes and businesses.

It's very interesting, so hang around for that. But before

that a few news items that have caught my eye starting with the miracle that any

of us who've ever been anywhere near an electric vehicle are still alive.

No, it's true, according to that old stalwart of reliable, trustworthy news.

It's a British institution. The Daily Mail. My mother and father

worshipped the Daily Mail on a daily basis. You know, I was brought up in a

daily mail household, so I'm very used to it but according to them we are all

risking our lives every day because we drive electric vehicles and they use all

caps in the headline when they report that electric car owners risk death every day.

Death!

The Daily Express, another incredibly well-balanced reliable source of information for people over 70, also picked up on the

story their headline even more click-baity saying that electric car drivers get this

you're like this face shocking risks.

So, anyway, these dirty old rags cite a survey of over 1500 electric car drivers

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