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...half that time in 220-volt Europe) and run for about 100 miles when full. Executives are betting that range will suffice in cities, where people use cars mostly to commute to work and run errands around town. General Motors is testing its electric model, the Chevrolet Volt, in Denmark, and plans to sell between 100,000 and 200,000 Volts a year in the U.S. from 2010; the car would switch to regular fuel once the electricity runs out. Renault will roll out its ZE (for zero emissions) electric car in Europe in 2011, and Tenenbaum estimates that...
...spending in research could be squeezed during the recession, especially since it is difficult to estimate how many electric cars they will ultimately sell. "Everybody is wondering what the market will be for electric cars and nobody has the answers," says Erik Morsing, GM's public relations manager in Denmark. "It depends very much on oil prices...
...should it be overlooked that electric cars need electricity, and making it isn't necessarily a clean process. Like GM, Nissan has a new electric car, the Nuvu, on display at the Paris show, and like GM, it is rolling it out in Denmark - a country of 5 million people with ample wind power and spare power during night hours, when most drivers are likely to recharge their cars. Renault's ZE is being tested in Israel, where there are plans to install the nation's first battery-charging stations, outside Tel Aviv, by the end of the year...
...which E.U. competition authorities had already pledged to challenge as a competition-distorting measure. But with Germany, Europe's largest economy, reversing its stand and taking that same route Sunday, Austria said it would follow suit - making it the fourth E.U. nation to guarantee private savings, along with Greece. Denmark and Sweden also raised the limits on savings they would guarantee, and by Monday, even British Finance Minister Alistair Darling was giving signals that Britain too might swap its current $88,000-per-person savings guarantee for blanket protection...
...Bull is banned in Norway, Uruguay, and Denmark because of previous documented health concerns...