Pro's and con's for buying an electric vehicle

It is but the concentration of the active ingredient in the strains grown is very low.

You do however require a home office licence to grow it in this country.

So it would be no use smoking the door panels.😂

Out of interest I looked at prices based on my current car Volvo XC60 which I purchased in 2015, now based on buying new cheapest diesel model £36205 currently Volvo are only doing plug in hybrids so would guess when they bring all electric model would cost more. Cheapest plug in hybrid £57600 so price difference £21395. So based on MM figures of saving £2500 per year on fuel it would take approx. 8.5 years just to recoup the price difference, then taken into account cost of insurance I would assume due to price difference cost of hybrid would be more expensive then cost of installing dedicated charging point at home plus extra electricity costs would take even longer. So until the cost becomes more viable in the future I will stick with my diesel model. (Currently Volvo are charging an extra £50 for a 4.5m charge cable)

Ad of course EV are cheaper to run because of low taxation on their fuel. That wont last beyond 5 years if that I suspect SELL.

And at present the Volvo range on EV is currently at 28 miles

Sorry to burst your bubble Bru, but Trabants, which were first manufactured in the 1950s were made from a cotton waste based composite, In the 1980s Citron used composites for several BX panels, and of course Lotus made road cars using composites too. So BMW can hardly claim the chequered flag for hemp in door panels.

That's what I thought, I had vision of EV's with no doors after being stolen by druggies.

My old Kuga had plastic wing panels.

There's no bubble to burst, I just think the technology is interesting and electric cars came before petrol engines. Now they are having a chance to develop. 

I really like the idea of electric cars, but they don't seem practical away from larger cities and towns. They are also price wise, well out of our league for what is, for us, a second vehicle which only gets used as a run about whilst we are at home. We do, however, go to events occasionally, perhaps 200 miles away, and with a return trip in the late evening an electric car could just be a massive pain. Fuel saving for us would also be minimal as we only put about £500 pounds worth of diesel in the car in a year, the VED is £20,  and if you factor in the cost of charging an electric car at home there isn't much change.

I recall GPO Telephones Morris Minor vans in the 1950s having rubber front wings. And surely leather seats can also be counted as a composite? What about my friend's 1907 Renault with wooden wheels . . . ? So use of composite materials has been with us since the begining of the auto-mobile.