Backers of electric cars are showing where drivers will be able to charge up around San Diego County in an effort to battle “range anxiety” — the fear that an electric car’s battery will run out of power and strand the driver.

Since most of us in the United States have never seen an actual electric car, let alone driven one, there are plenty of fear-based statements and myths about electric vehicles floating about. Fortunately, for each of these excuses, we can give you 10 reasons why your next car should be an electric vehicle.

It's a wonderful TV news flash: "Blind people in peril from killer electric cars"! The fear is that electric vehicles are so silent that blind people can't hear them coming, so new draft safety regulations may now require electric vehicles to emit sounds. There's just one problem...

Since most of us in the United States have never seen an actual electric car, let alone driven one, there are plenty of fear-based statements and myths about electric vehicles floating about. Fortunately, for each of these excuses, we can give you 10 reasons why your next car should be an electric vehicle.

Since most of us in the United States have never seen an actual electric car, let alone driven one, there are plenty of fear-based statements and myths about electric vehicles floating about. Fortunately, for each of these excuses, we can give you 10 reasons why your next car should be an electric vehicle.

Enjoy (or fear) the silence while it lasts. Battery-driven vehicles are touted for their potential to cut down on harmful emissions spewed for decades by gasoline-powered cars, but electric and hybrid vehicles may be too quiet to be heard by pedestrians,