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Ministers Embrace Electric Car Revolution


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Gordon Brown is to launch the biggest revolution in the way Britons drive since the development of the internal combustion engine. He will meet manufacturers this week to try to persuade them to mass-produce electric cars, and is considering a remarkable plan to sell the cars cheap, together with their fuel, that is modelled on mobile-phone contracts.

The scheme, which has already been taken up by Israel and Denmark, would sell heavily subsidised vehicles – or even give them away – in return for contracts to buy the electricity to charge them. Its inventor, a Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, believes it will at least halve the cost of motoring while dramatically reducing one of the main sources of the pollution that causes global warming.

The Prime Minister – who will reveal some of his thinking at the Motor Show this week – wants all new cars sold in Britain to be electric or hybrid vehicles by 2020, and is trying to enlist leaders of the motor industry because he wants "to see those cars manufactured in Britain".
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5 responses // Ministers Embrace Electric Car Revolution

  • Can someone say Project Better Place! For Island states like the UK which import all of there oil this makes a ton of sense. Hawaii would be the first and best state to implement a Electric Car charging infrastructure.

    No mention of EV motorcycles....
    CineDane
  • about time hu, nice to see progres in motion

    i think we can do more though , as humans the most under estamsted super computers on the planet , to bad we become distracted so esyly, what would hapen if we all looked for solutions compared notes and chose each solution in it's order of achivable action and move through to the next solution in order of achivement,


    what would hapen ?

    we might fix our problems , then what would we do?

    probably make more problems so we could be

    distracted and not experiance our potential as humans.

    shwing,

    gent jim / eco 1 mindstorm / the traveler

    stop by some time
    gentjim
  • the world has realized a need for change of how they do business in the energy industry . yet our leaders in the Us government are still thinking of ways to drill for more oil. I sometimes wish they would drill let them drill because everyone saying that screw the environment i want my cheap oil now. they will be surprised to realize that all these people who are in favor of drilling for oil almost never mentions the fact that the oil drilled is not going to the us market alone but the global market and the global demand is rising higher and higher and we are expected to demand almost twice as much demand for energy and oil by 2030.so let them do it at the same time by 2030 we could have significant other alternative that will ensure that our dependence on oil is significantly reduced. but who cares about the future right.
    stone246
  • HA! Interesting that a Silicon Valley guy invented this whole thing lol I think this is a great idea, which of course the US should also be doing, but I suspect the auto industry will be blocking efforts to do so. That's the advantage of being in a country that doesn't have a huge auto industry lobbying setup... the other thing that needs to happen is that, along with the switch to electric vehicles needs to be a push to develop renewable sources of electricity, so we don't just substitute one resource-rape for another.
    shelchak
  • At least they have Nissan behind them. No doubt more companies will release something in the next 2-5 years.

    San Francisco residents can get up to $6k in rebates for going Solar.....I also read Beer brewery "New Belgium" the makers of Fat Tire have a turbine kit you can buy and build yourself.

    The best part about building a renewable energy sources is you can't outsource energy production....I love it!
    CineDane

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