James Bond is making the switch to an electric car, so when will you?

You don’t need to be green to embrace an electric car – their design and performance now rivals their gas-guzzling equivalents, says Jason Barlow

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By Jason Barlow

WHAT would make you switch from a conventional car to a pure electric one? Its design? Its eco-credentials? Or an end to the accursed “range anxiety”?

Whatever the reason, it seems the tipping point is finally here. Jaguar’s I-Pace recently became the first fully electric car to win the European Car of the Year award. Tesla, led by Elon Musk, has just unveiled its compact SUV, the Model Y. Now James Bond is swapping his internal-combustion Aston Martin for an electric model, the Rapide-E, a move apparently …