I read this post recently questioning why electric car’s are so successful in India but not in the US or Europe. I think there are several reasons:
- Having driven in Indian Cities myself, the pace is slow to say the least. This lends itself to small economical cars that can squeeze down narrow lanes and between cars.
- Europeans like size. In europe we measure everything, torque, CFC, MPG, Top speed. Electric cars currently can’t compete with their fuel guzzling counterparts.
- Most importantly, electric cars, currently just aren’t sexy enough.
Source: Abdelaziz (Aziz) Musa
The north, south divide in the UK is alive and well. 2 Pieces of news yesterday proved that fact. Firstly a government think tank urged northerners to move to the south to be able to benefit from the prosperity southerners enjoy, and secondly A-level results showed that students in the south east are 50% more likely to get A grades that those in the north east. In the early days of new labour, the buzz word was ‘decentralisation’, a focus on empowering Newcastle, Manchester and Liverpool to ensure that their inhabitants enjoyed the same prosperity as their southern counterparts. Is this news a declaration that their efforts have failed?
Source: Abdelaziz (Aziz) Musa