by Sallust, Daily Sceptic:

The Mail has a timebomb story that should horrify EV owners and convince those still running combustion cars to stick with them for the foreseeable:

Many EVs will lose up to 12% of their charge capacity by six years. Some may lose even more.

Yet the cost of replacing an EV battery is astonishingly high, our research found.

In some cases, the cost of a replacement battery is as much as £40,000. For certain EVs, the cost of replacing the battery could be 10 times the value of the vehicle itself on the second-hand market.