04 March 2007

Labour's Record On Electric Cars

The Department for Transport, in their wisdom, has excluded electric cars from a list of the most environmentally friendly vehicles.

Going Green, the company which imports the G-Whiz electric car from India, also expressed dismay. 'If it looks like a car and it's used like a car, then it's a car,' said Keith Johnston, the company's managing director. 'This says much about the government's environmental motoring capability when the greenest "car" on the road, according to the government's own figures, is overlooked.'
After 9 1/2 years in power, Labour's Britain has fewer than 900 electric cars, and only 1 per cent of the 33m cars on our roads are not powered by petrol or diesel.

What we need is an infrastructure that enables people to easily recharge electric scooters and cars.

The entire electric vehicles debate is interesting for Coventry, not only with our history of being the centre of the car industry, but also for new initiatives, like Modec, an electric delivery van firm out by the A46.

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