Is it time to go electric?

With the unrelenting petrol price increases and the introduction of a host of new e-vehicles, is it time for sceptical South Africans to consider a different kind of car? We took a spin down electric avenue to see if it’s worth swapping the petrol card for a recharge card.

Let’s put this on record: I was once a complete petrolhead, addicted to the gurgling menace of a V8 internal combustion engine, and fortunate enough to test some of the fastest sports cars on the world’s most iconic racetracks.

I say “was” because things changed when my long-held assumptions were electrocuted by the Jaguar I-Pace…