EUROPEAN COUNTRIES START MAJOR PUSH ON ELECTRIC CAR DEVELOPMENT
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONTINENTAL European countries have started making major pushes to increase the amount of electric cars in operation. The initiatives mirror efforts by the UK government, with prime minister Gordon Brown recently promising GBPounds 90 million to support the development of electric, hybrid and other alternative fuel vehicles.
The Spanish government has been particularly ambitious, with a new Euro 240 million transport and energy plan released this summer. Its target is one million cars on Spanish roads by 2014. The plan follows a programme in ...
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