There must be some maturity in electric vehicles, BMW have an electric Mini going on trial with 20 members of the public in the South East:
http://www.mini.co.uk/html/about_us/...route=promobox#
From the website it looks well finsihed. Capable of motorway speeds and decent acceleration, 100+ mile range and 4.5 hour charge.
This would suit my wife and I as a second car very nicely.
Is it just the cost of batteries that holds this being taken to production? Or are they dragging their feet because of the massive change this could make to their industry and associated industries?
There are many reports showing that there is less carbon produced per mile by an electric car supplied from the UK grid mix vs a petrol car. I don't know about battery production.