Green Budget
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is promising this month’s Budget will plot a “green” route to economic recovery.
Trials of electric cars, a roadside network of vehicle-charging points and incentives for environmentally-friendly carmakers are among planned measures.
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said Mr Brown’s words “will be seen by many as a sign he has heeded the warning from the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, that Britain cannot afford another fiscal stimulus”.
The Independent said trials of electric cars are likely to begin next year in two or three cities, while ministers would open talks with electricity suppliers on developing the roadside power points.
Councils would also be invited to submit bids to become Britain’s first “green cities”, it said.
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This, on the face of it, sounds like good news. It is, of course, good news which we should have heard a decade ago, but better late than never.
Now - where can one find an electric vehicle at a sensible price (capital is an issue, sadly) and which has a decent range? Anyone seen one commercially available which has solar panels to trickle charge?
