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. 

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.

If you thought Paris to the South of France in an electric vehicle on just one charge could not be done, think again.

Thanks to an innovative partnership between Nissan and French national rail company SNCF, Nissan LEAF drivers can take their car on vacation without worrying about battery range, motorway tolls or the stress of dealing with vacation traffic on a long journey. 

“It was brilliant,” said Caroline Seow after her test drive in a Renault Zoe around Edinburgh. So brilliant, in fact, that she decided there and then she wants to buy one when she gets home to Singapore from TEDGlobal 2013.

Caroline, Executive Director of the Family Business Network Asia, sought out Zoe Project Director Simon Luque to find out when the car would be available in Singapore. He told her it would be soon… and he promised she would be one of the first customers.

Some of the world’s greatest thinkers are gathering at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh this week to discuss some of the biggest issues facing the world… and while they’re here they will discover how the Renault-Nissan Alliance has started the electric vehicle revolution with the aim of delivering sustainable zero-emission mobility for all.