Electric cars - silence is deadly?

Electric cars, especially the very small cars, are basically greenwash and a major strategic policy mistake, about on a par with Seventies promises that smaller cars would 'ease congestion'--more units were sold, and the exact opposite happened.

Agreed. Electric cars simply move the pollution to the nearest power station. Better for a city centre but probably worse on the whole. Biggest load of bollocks since Y2K. Around 70% of the electrickery is lost on transmission alone, then there are generation losses to consider. If you can generate all your own power sustainably and charge your car up from that it could work, but then your house would need traditional mains power as the car would use everything you could feasibly generate.