Politicians say electric cars will dominate, but experts differ

If you listen to political leaders like Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, you might think that we will all be driving around in electric cars in just over 10 years, but industry experts don’t agree and expect there will still be a big cocktail of choices available by 2020.

Brown told the Group of Eight summit in Japan earlier in July that all new vehicles could be powered by electric or hybrid engines by 2020. The other leaders of the world’s richest nations plus Russia didn’t demur, so presumably they agreed. Brown repeated his claim at the London Motor Show this week in a meeting with GM Europe President Carl-Peter Forster. Forster said that this was a “very, very ambitious target”.

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