Liam Denning, Columnist

The Hidden Benefit of Electric Vehicles: Choice

A tank of gas is always a tank of gas, while a battery is a platform.

September 19, 2017 at 6:00 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

An electric car is recharged at a loading station in Frankfurt am Main, central Germany, on September 13, 2017.
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If anything demonstrates the wonders of capitalism, it is sheer choice. How else do you explain that insane cereal aisle in the supermarket?

Which brings us to electric vehicles.