Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News Getty Images More people are buying electric cars and installing heat pumps than ever before, but those numbers need to increase even further, according to the government’s climate advisers. The independent Climate Change Committee said that the government needed to make sure that households benefit from the switch to...
Americans were never crazy about electric vehicles to begin with, certainly not in a Cabbage Patch Doll or Beanie Baby buying frenzy sort of way. For one thing, EVs were always too expensive and too impractical for an impulse purchase, which is what Americans live for when they go nuts over some new technology. Take...