It depends on what kind of car you are interested in but if you are into the smaller cars you will love this as it is no bigger than the smart car. For a car of its type it is actually quite speedy reaching at around a bout 50mph which is great for the people that live in the city.

The power actually comes from a 6kw fuel cell which is actually one of the smallest ever introduced into a car like this. it is very important to keep the weight down on this car as it allows the speed of the car to be heavily increased.

There is a bank of ultracapacitors to store this electricity, which in turn provides most of the accelerating power, allowing for a small fuel cell.

Design for the Riversimple cars will be placed online in an ‘open source’ environment, meaning any small manufacturer can lease the design, better suiting local environments and allowing for the car to be built almost anywhere in the world.

Something that is also very good to hear is that you can lease these vehicles and everything from the price of the fuel will be covered.

The head of Riversimple actually stated that we must push forward with the technology rather than get left behind. Of course we now realise that we much minimize the resource source of selling cars which is what these cars are trying to do.”

“The Riversimple Urban Car represents a major step towards practical 21st century personal transport and towards the fulfilment of my great-grandfather’s ambitions for accessible personal transport but this time combining his other passions: light weight and high efficiency,” said Piech.

The real question to ask is will they be upgrading things like used cars to make them greener? If you have recently gone out and purchased a  Audi TT Roadster then you are not going to be pleased when you cannot upgrade it to make it a bit greener.  New Audi are just one of the brands that needs to be looked into.

London is of course the first place where everything kicked off but now there are other places who have started up the idea. Of course you may be aware that the next place going electric is going to be Brighton.

Brighton was chosen because it’s the home of Elektromotive, the company that developed and makes the Elektrobay roadside charging station and which has installed more than 100 in London since 2006. Four stations are already in place in Brighton and will be useable in time for their official launch on October 2nd.

The Elektrobay is actually able to charge up plug-in hybrid cars with all customers getting a key that actually unlocks the unit for roadside charging.

Moving to a place that is actually a lot smaller shows that the idea is actually really kicking off.

The problem at the moment is one; there aren’t enough places to charge up an electric car and two; because they’re still a bit rubbish. People won’t buy an electric car for both of these reasons.

However, once there is somewhere to charge up people will get them and that will in turn create demand for more research funding to make better cars.

So although there are actually not very many places where you can charge up your vehicle if you give it a bit of time we could be on to something here.

The real question that needs to be asked is will they be upgrading things like used cars to make them greener? If you have recently gone out and purchased a  Audi TT Roadster then you are not going to be pleased when you cannot upgrade it to make it a bit greener.  New Audi is just one of the brands that needs to be looked into for this.