Norbert Reithofer, Rory Lumsdon, Nick Clegg.

“California is the trend market.”

BMW’s CEO Norbert Reithofer wants and has to see the i3 a success in the EV-friendly U.S. state. The decision to produce more i-models has not been made, Reithofer said in a recent telephone interview.
“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” print edition. May 7th, 2014. Page 21.

“It would be irresponsible of Volkswagen only to pursue one strategy. In the short term, battery electric vehicles have the greater real-world potential, but we are also investigating the Volkswagen possibilities of hydrogen.”

Rory Lumsdon, Manager of Product Affairs at Volkswagen UK, talks about VW’s late start to electric cars and why it was worth the wait.
thegreencarwebsite.co.uk

“I would love to buy an electric car if they produced more of the family size. […] Most of the electric cars on the market are smaller ones that are not quite right for a family of my size.”

Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, stated that EVs are basically unsuitable for families only a few days after announcing a 500m-pound investment to encourage people to buy more green vehicles (we reported).
telegraph.co.uk