Renault-Nissan will introduce all-electric cars and a charging-points set-up in Israel and Denmark by 2011. They plan to launcha battery-powered car in America in 2010, and in every large car market by 2012. Everything is ready now except the batteries. Electric car batteries had only a 50-mile range in the early 1990s, now can go 200 miles, and fast-charge systems will allow 70% top-up in the time it takes to fill a tank with petrol.

In America, some Republican senators want to ease legal requirements to increase amount of ethanol used in fuel. The British government will selectively support biofuels.