Electric Car In Not Too Near Future

"With powerful lobbyists from Detroit and environmentalists from around the world watching, state air-quality officials voted last night to revolutionize the car market by requiring 3 million electric and low-polluting vehicles to be sold in California over the next decade. . . Rule changes considered yesterday by the state Air Resources Board signal the end of a decade-long bureaucratic and political fight over electric cars in California. In a dramatic announcement that shook Detroit 10 years ago, the air board recommended that by 2003, 10 percent of all cars sold in California must be "zero-emission" -- essentially, electric cars. Now, the plan from the board is another compromise that tries to balance the environment with the limits of technology and car-buyer demand. Car makers claim Californians simply won't buy electric cars, which cost $35,000 and travel only 125 miles before running out of juice and then taking hours to recharge."

Thanks to Christian Peralta