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We love the sound of a roaring V8 engine. We love its power and its heritage. But we are also realistic… and we know that, before long, the V8 – and, in truth, all its petrol-powered cousins – will become museum exhibits.

 

Put simply, the gasoline engine is not sustainable. It drinks fuel that is refined from dwindling reserves. It produces harmful emissions. Did you realise, for example, that in 2013, 36 million tons of CO2 was emitted from the tailpipes of gas-powered cars, vans, truck and buses?

 

Or that 450 million kgs of CO2 emissions have not been emitted from all the Alliance EVs in the world.

 

Or that the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that by 2050 there will be an incredible 2.5 billion light duty vehicles on the roads of the world?

 

Fortunately there is an answer, a solution to sustainable mobility. It is, of course, the electric vehicle… if we want the freedom of personal mobility to continue, there is no other option.

 

This, then, shows that the EV is not tomorrow’s technology, but that it’s here, today.. Forward thinking motorists agree, which is why EVs sales are rising. And as charging infrastructure improves – and the many benefits of driving an electric vehicle are appreciated by more and more consumers – sales will rise even faster. 

 

Those benefits are not restricted to reduced dependence on oil or the production of fewer harmful emissions. As anyone who has driven an EV will confirm, they are smooth, quiet and easy to drive, enjoy instant and rapid acceleration (just as good as a gas-guzzling V8, in fact), and are exceedingly cheap to run. The future’s not looking so bad, after all.