Iceland's President Pushes for EVs...And a 100 Percent Clean Energy Economy | BNET Auto Blog | BNET: "As Grímsson poined out, Iceland, with its abundant geothermal and hydroelectric power, has among the lowest electric costs in the world. He cited a Reykjavik Energy study that estimates half the cars in the city (home to more than half of Iceland’s 310,000 population) could be powered by electric power as early as 2013.
“It would be great if we could switch to electric cars on a large scale,” Grímsson said. “The annual cost of operating a small electric car is the equivalent of two or three full tanks of gasoline.” And that’s especially true in Iceland, where electricity is cheap but gas very expensive.
Iceland isn’t just talking about switching to electric cars. It has been in talks with Mitsubishi (already a supplier of turbines for its geothermal industry) for two years, and an agreement will put the company’s i-MiEV EVs on the road here before they’re anywhere else in Europe."
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