During a media tour hashing over the "structural change" in the historically coal, steel and beer-driven economy of the Ruhr region in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the sessions was about e-mobility, i.e. how to go about getting everyone into electric cars. It may not surprise you to learn that our host was RWE, one of the handful of German utility giants. What may be surprising was that they gave us test rides in a distinctly non-German vehicle: the Tesla Roadster, made in the U.K., from technology developed in northern California.   When the first two of us folded themselves into the tiny, low seat ... [Read More]