Editorial

摘要

Imagine for a moment that you're an entrepreneur,rnon the cusp of the 20th century. You're sharp at spotting coming trends, and so you're investing heavily in the bright new future that is the horseless carriage. You step into a time bubble, and emerge blinking in the halogens of the New York City Auto Show, 2009. Amazed at what you see around you?rnAbsolutely - but enough about the dress code of the sales girls. That aside, it's pretty much as you would have predicted back in 1900: electric horseless carriages, wherever you look. You knew all that excitement about petrol would just be a flash in the pan…rn'Cyberpunk' William Gibson's famous quote - "the future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed" - could have been coined for electric cars. After a century marking time, this seems to be their hour. You can't turn on a business channel without seeing some Detroit CEO or other, eyes shining with all the fervour of the new convert, laying out plans for mass electrification.