It's six months since I began my journey with the i4 M50. A lot has happened in that time, and many lessons have been learned. That somewhat sums up the last decade of EV development. These cars have come a long way, but each mile has shown how much further they need to go, while the whole doctrine of battery-electric traction could yet prove to be an automotive and, indeed, environmental, cul-de-sac.
Politically, the EV is great news. There are masses of seen-to-be-done elements around it, opportunities for investment, even more for PR, changing the world and above all, pulling the wool. Burning fossil fuel is bad – we get it, just as we understood that smoking was damaging people's health, both the smoker themselves, and the folk around them,…