Humanity is at the very beginning of a long process which will lead one day to the electric car. This is the impression one gathers from the 2009 International Automobile Exhibition in Frankfurt.
At present, no more than a few thousand electric cars are running on the roads or streets in Japan, Europe and the USA. [...]

The package of climate measures, which the European Council adopted December 12, has been heralded as an example for other countries to emulate. The EU is so far the only political entity to have adopted a broad set of measures meant to curb green house gas emissions in the coming years and decades.
But we should [...]