<div>Last year, riding high on a promise to be the greenest government ever, the Department for Transport hailed 2011 as the "year of the electric car". Subsidies were offered and councils were told to plan for an electric future. The long-promised revolution in the way we drive was finally here, it seemed.
British drivers had other ideas. The notion that electric vehicles are slow, impractical and even unsafe persisted, and only 1,000 were sold.
But now there is a spark of hope. Today, more than 60 charging points will go live in Oxford, making the city the "electric vehicle capital of Europe" with one charging point for every 2,400 people
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British drivers had other ideas. The notion that electric vehicles are slow, impractical and even unsafe persisted, and only 1,000 were sold.
But now there is a spark of hope. Today, more than 60 charging points will go live in Oxford, making the city the "electric vehicle capital of Europe" with one charging point for every 2,400 people
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