Electric cars break down more often than petrol and diesel vehicles, the Automobile Association (AA) has warned. Jakob ...

Uncover the most common UK car breakdown causes revealed and learn how to avoid the dreaded hard shoulder on your road trips.

This was also the case here. In the first breakdown vehicle of the day, an almost 40-year-old Jeep Cherokee, a heavily corroded cable to the starter motor turned out to be the source of the fault.

In 2020, EVs had 8.5 breakdowns on average, while combustion cars had 12.9. These figures went down to 4.3 for EVs in 2021 ...