by Michael Carmichael

Article Source: Huffington Post

Concerned about global warming?

Worried about environmental pollution?

Even in these days of global economic recession, billions of people still care deeply about the environment. Millions of people want to do something tangible — right now — to preserve the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the land we cultivate and the natural world that restores and replenishes our fragile biosphere.

The electrification of the car and the transportation system provides an intelligent technological response to environmental degradation and global warming. Even in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, the trend to electric cars and plug-in hybrids (cars with both electric and small conventional motors) is growing stronger. While the market is not yet flooded with plug-in electric cars, manufacturers are accelerating their design, development and production. A new group of consumers, the Early Adopters, are plunking down substantial sums to lead the green revolution by driving plug-in hybrids and electric cars. The cutting edge of the clean technology movement spearheads this burgeoning trend toward the plug-in electric car.  Read more…