Neil Winton is a Senior Contributor for Forbes, writing about the automotive industry in general and EVs in particular. Views expressed are his own. He was formerly European Auto Correspondent for Reuters, wrote the European Perspective column for the Detroit News, and contributed to the Wall Street Journal. If you’ve just taken delivery of a new electric car, be ready for some nasty surprises. The dealer would have taken you for a test drive, and you would have been very impressed by its luxurious quietness. You would have ventured onto the motorway and sampled its fabulous performance, more …