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Wed 01 Jan 2010EU to introduce electric car initiative
A new initiative to launch a Europe-wide plan for an electric car will be launched as part of the Spanish presidency of the EU next month.
Spanish rime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, said there was a need for a pan-European strategy to produce a viable electric car.
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