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Wed 01 Jan 2010Spanish want EU to take lead in electric cars
A EUROPE-WIDE plan for an electric car will be launched as part of the Spanish presidency of the EU next month.
Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose country holds the EU presidency, said there was a need for a pan-European strategy to produce viable electric cars.
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