With a new decade starting shortly, it's time for conscientious columnists to undergo their self-administered decennial performance reviews.
I'll start — and try to keep it focused. For the past 10 years, I've waged a quixotic counteroffensive against electric-car boosterism, raining skepticism on the vehicles' potential to cure climate change, much less to be the clean, green wave of the transportation future.
More than a few people (my Tesla-owner friends very much included) have questioned this fixation, and I freely admit it's an odd one.
I just figured that someone in an otherwise credulous press had to sort through the cloud of wishful thinking, political rhetoric and sheer commercial hype surrounding this subject, and it might as well be me.
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