The long distances often involved in travelling across North America will pose no challenge to EV users in Vermont and Quebec, following the installation of a 138-mile (222km) charging corridor between Burlington and Montreal. 

The zero-emission Nissan LEAF is at the heart of an innovative new car-sharing scheme in the Canadian city of Montreal.

Germany is backing a huge growth in sales of electric vehicles. Chancellor Angela Merkel told an international forum in Berlin that she wants to see at least one million EVs on Germany’s highways and byways by the end of the decade.

With that number of zero-emission vehicles on its roads, Germany’s credentials as a leader in sustainable mobility would be assured. And although the target is ambitious there are promising signs that it can be achieved.

It’s a bold goal but if any city can do it, it’s got to be Copenhagen. Denmark’s capital is aiming to be the first carbon neutral city in the world by 2025… but then, as the country also aims to generate all its electricity from renewable sources – solar, wind and hydro – by 2050, it is clearly not a fanciful target.