It was in the news today that motorists will be offered up to £5,000 to encourage them to buy electric/”plug-in” hybrid cars. Its all part of the goverment’s £250m plan to promote low carbon transport. Even if it does happen, eligible cars are not expected to hit the showrooms until 2011.
I am not sure if electric cars are the future. The production of the batteries to power the electric cars are said by some to cause more harm to the environment that normal petrol cars.
I think the future is hydrogen powered cars. They had one on Top Gear recently – a hydrogen powered Honda car with the only thing it “outputted” was water.
