TRANSIT NEWSFILE

摘要

In Britain, the percentage of 17 to 20 year-olds with driving licences fell from 48% in the early 1990s to 35% last year.The distance travelled by all forms of domestic transport, per capita per year, has been steady for years. Meanwhile, road traffic figures for cars and taxis, having risen more or less every year since 1949, have continued to fall since 2007. It seems that car buyers are not interested in electric cars, even when they are using someone else's money,a European report suggests. In the first half of 2011 buyers remained stubbornly unresponsive to financial incentives offered to them, with electric car sales totalling just 0.07% of all new car registrations across Europe. Even in Denmark, where government incentives and tax exclusions can add up to $28,000, only 283 new electric vehicles were registered, or just 0.32 per cent of the country's new car total.