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Electric cars go furthest on a fiver – almost twice the distance of diesel and petrol cars

Charging an electric car with £5 of energy will see it travel almost double the distance of a petrol or diesel motor using a fiver’s worth of fuel. Electric vehicles carry drivers 40 miles further than the closest competing transport type, according to new research. Surprisingly, one in five motorists think the low-emission vehicles are