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brick
01-21-2009, 05:47 PM
You buy the car, they will sell you the miles. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/01/090121_electric_cars_sl.shtml)

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2009_Smart_ED.jpgRichard Hollingham - BBC News - January 21, 2009

Sleek, silent and environmentally sound: electric cars have the potential to transform our cities and revitalise the car industry.

It seems that every few years a new model is announced as the future of motoring before sinking into oblivion.

Now though, with car manufacturers under pressure to innovate, a new concept for electric motoring is emerging, led by an entrepreneur who is being hailed as a visionary.

The BBC's Richard Hollingham took a ride in an electric car...[Listen at BBC News] (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/01/090121_electric_cars_sl.shtml)

brick
01-21-2009, 05:58 PM
Just a note to the members on this story:

These BBC stories don't always come out in text, but the reporting is among the best available. I'm linking to the podcast as an experiment. If you guys enjoy it we can link to them more often. I hear something relevant on the BBC World Service at least a couple of times per week.



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