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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington

Electric cars: Post your questions for an expert panel

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The Guardian's Bibi van der Zee takes the UK's first electric sports car with a right-hand drive for a ride. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Electric cars are a fascinating proposition: clean and fast but also currently expensive and scarce.

So I'm looking forward to getting some answers from a top-level panel at a Guardian debate - sponsored by Renault - that I'm chairing on Monday 21 March in London. Tickets are free, so do come if you can - details here.

But if you can't, please put your questions in the comments below and I'll put some of them to the panel for you. We'll also have someone live tweeting the event using #evdebate, from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Here's the panel:

• Norman Baker, Parliamentary under-secretary of state for transport

• David Kennedy, chief executive, Committee on climate change

• Baroness Worthington, Labour peer and founder of Sandbag

• Richard Hebditch, campaigns director, Campaign for Better Transport

• Andy Heiron, head of the electric vehicle programme, Renault

The Committee on climate change says we need 1.7m electric cars on UK roads by 2020 to meet our carbon targets, so the issues on my mind include the price and range of the vehicles. But I'm sure you'll have more.

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