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California Officials Unveil Plans to Turn San Francisco into Electric Car Capital

Hybrid electric cars on display in front of City Hall in San Francisco, California. (Photographer: Kimberly White/Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO - Officials in California have unveiled ambitious plans to turn the San Francisco Bay Area into one of the leading centres of electric vehicles in the world.

If it succeeds, the strategy announced yesterday will see billions of dollars poured into a new power infrastructure that will turn the region away from fossil fuel and to renewable energy - and convince millions of people to switch to green technology.