Conservatives taken aback by Palin's decision to resign.. -- Astounding. Risky. Quitter. And that's what fellow conservatives had to say Sunday about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her decision to step down with 18 months left in her term.Democrats left it to Republican and conservative voices to assess what Friday's unexpected announcement by Palin means for her and a possible run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. For example, Vice President Joe Biden called it a personal decision, offering no analysis of why she did it.By contrast, those on the political right acknowledged that they didn't know what to make of it.Karl Rove, the "architect" of George W. Bush's successful presidential campaigns, said the resignation left many of Palin's fellow Republicans "a little perplexed.""It's a risky strategy," Rove told "Fox News Sunday.""Astounding," was the pronouncement by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and conservative columnist George Will said Palin was declaring herself a quitter.Palin, who was Sen. John McCain's vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, said she already knew she would not seek a second term and decided against being a lame duck governor for the next 18 months.She also complained that too much time and too many taxpayer dollars were going toward fighting ethics investigations and that the mainstream media were continuing with unfair attacks on her and her family.Some analysts believe that Palin will seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and that her resignation is intended to free her to prepare.Rove, whom Bush dubbed "the Architect" for managing his successful presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004, said stepping down now won't lessen the media spotlight on Palin. In fact, he said, leaving the governor's office takes away her platform for controlling her agenda and message."The media, if she wants to run for president, is going to be following her for the next 3½ years," said Rove, who called the move unclear and therefore a potentially harmful strategy for a politician. "Effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp. ... It's not clear what she's doing and why."Grassley told the CBS program "Face the Nation" that he had "no insight into why she did it.""I would think, if you want to run for president -- and I'm not sure that's got anything to do with what she's doing -- that the forum of a governorship would be a better forum than just being a private citizen," the veteran senator said.Will told the ABC program "This Week" that he had "no idea why she did this.""The one that rings most hollow is, she doesn't want to put Alaska through the terror of [her] being a lame-duck governor," Will said. "If she is just weary of it, one can understand that. Still, she made a contract with [voters] to serve out her term. And she said, in her own words, she now is a quitter."Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska criticized Palin's decision as abandoning the state's voters. Palin defeated Murkowski's father the gubernatorial election in 2006.But Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, also on the Fox program, said Sunday that Murkowski's statement disappointed him because it failed to recognize all that Palin has accomplished in her 2½ years in office."She doesn't need a title to effect change and bring some hope to people who need it," said Parnell, a Republican who stands to become governor when Palin steps down this month.Palin had no public appearances Sunday, but she encouraged her followers via Twitter to ignore the pundits."Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again," her Twitter message said.In an Independence Day message to supporters, Palin said she was leaving office for a "higher calling.""How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country," Palin said in a statement attributed to her on her Facebook page. "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it's right for all, including your family."Palin said her administration had "accomplished more during this one term than most governors do in two.""We have accomplished so much, and there's much more to do, but my family and I determined after prayerful consideration that sacrificing my title helps Alaska most," she said. "And once I decided not to run for re-election, my decision was that much easier. I've never been one to waste time or resources."Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, noted that Palin will remain in the media spotlight regardless of whether she is governor."The challenge that she's going to have is that there will be people who will say, 'Look, if they chased you out of this, it won't get any easier at other levels,' " Huckabee said. "It could be a brilliant strategy. The point is, we don't know."Huckabee called a presidential campaign "brutal" and said a Republican primary will ratchet up the pressure on Palin."When your opponents within your own team spend millions of dollars to redefine you, it's very, very difficult," Huckabee said.

'Nervous' Armstrong eyes eighth Tour success.By Greg Duke. -- The most-eagerly anticipated Tour de France in recent history begins with a testing individual time-trial in Monaco on July 4 and fittingly, on U.S. Independence Day, an American will take center stage in cycling's greatest race.Lance Armstrong's return to the race for the first time since winning the last of his seven Tour titles has dominated the build-up to the race -- and all eyes will be on the Texan over the next three weeks to see if he can add another chapter to his remarkable life story, both on and off the bike.Armstrong is not favorite to be wearing the yellow jersey in Paris, that honor belongs to his Astana team-mate and 2007 champion Alberto Contador, but the American's competitive edge will and supreme ability will ensure he will make his presence felt in the peloton.Tour de France explainer »"I don't have the same confidence as I had before, that's natural, I think, after being away for four years," Armstrong told Eurosport."I come with an extreme sense of excitement and also, quite honestly, a heck of a lot of nerves but come Saturday afternoon I'll be excited to be there."I'm going to race hard for three weeks and if that's for Alberto or anybody else on the team, the most important thing is we win the race."It's just great to be here and be in this great principality. What a beautiful setting and what a great place to start this Tour."The fact that Armstrong and Contador are on the same team adds further spice to the race. In any other team, the outstanding Contador would be the star name but since Armstrong's return at the start of the year, the Spaniard has only been mentioned in despatches.Contador was prevented from racing in last year's Tour as Astana were banned because of drug misdemeanors regarding previous riders.Shrugging aside his disappointment, Contador showed his class by winning both the Tour of Spain and Giro d'Italia, joining a select band of riders to win all three major stage races.Astana team chief Johan Bruyneel, who guided Armstrong to all his seven previous Tour wins, insists he is happy to have two cycling superstars in his stable."If you have just one leader, you play all your cards with that one guy," explained Bruyneel. "Everything depends on his performance and you can also lose everything."It happened during the Tour of Spain last year in the last week, Alberto crashed with about three or four days left to go."It was a nothing crash and luckily he wasn't injured, but he could have broken a collarbone and everything would have been lost. So we are in a position where we have other cards to play, which is a good thing."Contador has kept quiet in the lead up to the race, although he has been strongly linked with a possible move to the Caisse d'Epargne team but 1996 Tour winner Bjarne Riis is under no illusions about Contador's chances."To me, it's obvious that Astana should have one leader and to me, that leader is Contador," Riis -- whose CSC team won the race last year with Carlos Sastre -- told reporters."If I should take a guess, that's the way it is going to be. If they have other plans, then it's going to be funny to watch. Lance is not too old to compete -- maybe to win, but we'll have to wait and see," added Riis.Defending champion Sastre and Riis have gone their separate ways since last year's victory but both men will have high hopes of being top of the podium again in Paris.Sastre, who now rides for the newly-formed Cervelo team, has enjoyed a solid year and put in a strong display to finish fourth in May's Giro d'Italia.The Spaniard is known for his quiet, unassuming manner but -- doubts about his team aside -- he appears to have an outstanding chance of using his excellent climbing skills to put himself in contention again.A large part of Sastre's success last year was down to the work put in by Andy Schleck and -- with Sastre now moved on -- the 24-year-old Luxembourger has taken over the mantel of team leader of the re-branded Saxo Bank outfit.With older brother Frank providing a valuable foil, Schleck's undoubted ability marks him down as a future Tour winner, although maybe that time has still not arrived yet.Russian Denis Menchov impressed everybody with his Giro d'Italia victory but it will be asking a lot to win both the Tour and Giro in the same year -- the late great Marco Pantani was the last man to achieve that particular feat in 1998.

Al Qaeda threatens France for perceived anti-burqa stance.PARIS, France . -- Al Qaeda threatened to "take revenge" on France "by every means and wherever we can reach them" because of a debate in France over whether the burqa, a traditional Islamic woman's covering, violates French law, according to a statement posted on radical Islamist Web sites."We will not tolerate such provocations and injustices, and we will take our revenge from France," said the statement, signed by Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, calling himself "commander of al Qaeda in North Africa [Islamic Maghreb]."The statement is dated June 28, five days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy controversially told lawmakers that the traditional Muslim garment was "not welcome" in France.A day later, the French National Assembly announced the creation of an inquiry into whether women in France should be allowed to wear the garment.A cross-party panel of 32 lawmakers will investigate whether the burqa poses a threat to the secular nature of the French constitution. They are due to report back with their recommendations in six months.The al Qaeda statement accused France of "organizing its ranks to fight a new blatant war against our sisters wearing the burqa."CNN cannot verify the authenticity of the statement, which also accused the French of "committing all of these grievances in a time when we see their women flooding our nations, filling our shores, poorly dressed and nude in a deliberate defiance to the feelings of Muslims and in clear contempt to the teachings of the Islamic faith, traditions and norms.""Our Muslim brothers in France in particular and in Europe in general are increasingly troubled by the practices of the French politicians and their leaders, and their constant harassments of our people regarding the burqa issue," said the statement."Yesterday they targeted the veil, today the burqa and maybe tomorrow their evil hands could be extended to defame our pillars of faith, like praying, fasting or the pilgrimage," it added.Sarkozy made the statement last week, in an address to parliament."The problem of the burqa is not a religious problem. This is an issue of a woman's freedom and dignity. This is not a religious symbol. It is a sign of subservience; it is a sign of lowering. I want to say solemnly, the burqa is not welcome in France," Sarkozy said.The right of Muslim women to cover themselves is fiercely debated in France, which has a significant Muslim minority but also a staunchly secular constitution.In 2004, the French parliament passed legislation banning Muslim girls from wearing head scarves in state schools, prompting widespread Muslim protests. The law also banned other conspicuous religious symbols including Sikh turbans, large Christian crucifixes and Jewish skull caps.Last year, France's top court denied a Moroccan woman's naturalization request on the grounds that she wore a burqa.Between 5 and 10 percent of France's population of 64 million is Muslim, according to CIA estimates. The country does not collect its own statistics on religion in accordance with laws enshrining France's status as a secular state.France is not the only European Union country to consider banning the burqa. Dutch lawmakers voted in favor of a ban in 2005, although the government at the time left office before legislation could be passed.

Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years.By Alan Silverleib CNNWASHINGTON . -- NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.The mission had been scheduled for launch in the fall of 2009.The Mars Science Lab is a large, nuclear-powered rover designed to traverse long distances with a suite of onboard scientific instruments aboard.It is, according to NASA's Web site, part of a "long-term effort of robotic exploration" established to "study the early environmental history of Mars" and assess whether Mars has ever been -- or still is -- able to sustain life.The delay of the launch, according to NASA, is due to a number of "testing and hardware challenges that must (still) be addressed to ensure mission success.""The progress in recent weeks has not come fast enough on solving technical challenges and pulling hardware together," said Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.Changing to a 2011 launch "will allow for careful resolution of any remaining technical problems, proper and thorough testing, and avoid a mad dash to launch," argued NASA Associate Administrator Ed Weiler.The overall cost of the Mars Science Lab is now projected to be roughly $2.1 billion, according to NASA spokesman Dwayne Browne. The project originally carried a price tag of $1.6 billion.NASA's entire budget for the current fiscal year, according to Browne, is approximately $15 billion.According to NASA, the Mars rover will use new technologies and be engineered to explore greater distances over rougher terrain than previous missions to the planet. This will be done in part by employing a new surface propulsion system."Failure is not an option on this mission," Weiler said. "The science is too important and the investment of American taxpayer dollars compels us to be absolutely certain that we have done everything possible to ensure the success of this flagship planetary mission."Weiler asserted that, based on the agency's preliminary evaluations, additional costs tied to the delay of the Science Lab launch would not result in the cancellation of other NASA programs over the next two years. He did, however, concede that it would result in other unspecified program delays.Critics have charged that the delay and cost overruns associated with the Mars Science Lab are indicative of an agency that is plagued by a lack of accountability and inefficiency in terms of its management of both time and taxpayer dollars."The Mars Science Laboratory is only the latest symptom of a NASA culture that has lost control of spending," wrote Alan Stern, a former NASA associate administrator, in a November 24 op-ed in the New York Times. "A cancer is overtaking our space agency: the routine acquiescence to immense cost increases in projects."Stern charged that the agency's cost overruns are being fueled by "managers who disguise the size of cost increases that missions incur" and "members of Congress who accept steep increases to protect local jobs."Browne replied in a written statement saying that NASA administrators are "constantly working to improve (the agency's) cost-estimating capabilities. ... We continually review our projects to understand the true risk in terms of performance, cost and schedule.""The fact of life at NASA, where we are charged with creating first-of-a-kind missions of scientific discovery, is that estimating the costs of ... science can be almost as difficult as actually doing the science," Browne said.NASA's most recent Mars project -- the mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander -- came to an end last month after the solar-powered vehicle's batteries ran down as the result of a dust storm and the onset of Martian winter. It had operated two months beyond its initial three-month mission.NASA officials had landed the vehicle on an arctic plain after satellite observations indicated there were vast quantities of frozen water in that area, most likely in the form of permafrost. They thought such a location would be a promising place to look for organic chemicals that would signal a habitable environment.Scientists were able to verify the presence of water-ice in the Martian subsurface, find small concentrations of salts that could be nutrients for life, and observe snow descending from the clouds, NASA said Thursday.

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Colombian guerrillas held on U.S. drug charges.NEW YORK . -- Two members of a Colombian guerrilla group have been arrested on federal U.S. drug charges, the U.S. attorney in New York announced.Jose Joaquin Montes-Ovalles, known as Jaco, and Maria Lilian Castellanos-Poveda, often called Lili, were arrested in Colombia on Thursday and charged with conspiring to import more than five kilograms (11 pounds) of cocaine into the United States, according to a January indictment unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court.U.S. officials say the two belong to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly referred to by its Spanish acronym, FARC. According to the indictment, FARC is "the world's largest supplier of cocaine."In an e-mail to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent in May 2006, the indictment says, Montes-Ovalles described himself and Castellanos-Poveda as "the FARC top representatives in these negotiations."Montes-Ovalles and Castellanos-Poveda had met with two undercover DEA agents in Panama a month earlier to discuss a 1,000-kilogram (2,200-pound) shipment of cocaine from an airstrip in Venezuela, the indictment alleges. The DEA agents were posing as members of the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico's main cocaine-trafficking organizations.According to the indictment, the two FARC members had a series of e-mail and telephone contacts with the undercover agents until late December 2008. In one of the contacts, the document says, the suspects promised to provide security in Colombia for the agents.Montes-Ovalles and Castellanos-Poveda were arrested in Colombia by army soldiers and agents from the nation's federal investigative unit and the prosecutor's office, said Lev L. Dassin, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Gilbride, special agent in charge of the New York DEA office.The indictment was handed up in New York, and the suspects are expected to be extradited.FARC, the largest and oldest guerrilla group in Colombia, has been waging war against the Colombian government since the 1960s.Security analysts say the FARC has about 9,000 to 12,000 armed guerillas and several thousand supporters, mostly in rural areas.A news release by Dassin and Gilbride says the Marxist guerrilla group has "approximately 10,000 armed guerrillas organized into 77 'fronts' and four urban militias."Montes-Ovalles and Castellanos-Poveda are accused in the indictment of belonging to the 10th Front, based in the Arauca state in Colombia, on the border with Venezuela."The 10th Front supports its terrorist activities and those of the FARC by supplying and arranging shipments of cocaine from airstrips in Venezuela and on the border of Colombia and Venezuela," the indictment says.The guerrilla group operates mostly in Colombia but has carried out extortion, kidnappings, bombings and other activities in Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador.

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Obama: Auto execs should go.President-elect supports industry aid, but says it must be tied to restructuring.December 7, 2008: 3:45 PM ETCHICAGO (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama announced support Sunday for a short-term government bailout of the nation's carmakers that is tied to industry restructuring. He also accused auto executives of a persistent "head-in-the sand approach" to long-festering problems.Obama said Congress was doing "the exact right thing" in drafting legislation that "holds the auto industry's feet to the fire" at the same time it tries to prevent its demise.In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" and later at a news conference, Obama at one point suggested some executives should lose their jobs.One leading Democrat in Congress, Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, was far blunter. Rick Wagoner, the chief executive of General Motors Corp., (GM, Fortune 500) "has to move on," said Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.The criticism of industry leaders deepened as negotiators for the White House and Congress narrowed their differences over a plan to extend roughly $15 billion in short-term loans to any Detroit automaker that needs it. Analysts say General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, in particular, are at risk for running out of money in the next few weeks, and that Ford Motor Co. (F, Fortune 500) may need help if the economy deteriorates further.Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, whose state is ground zero for the battered industry, said he was confident an agreement would emerge within the next day.Democratic leaders have said they hope to pass the measure this week. While Levin declined to predict its approval, support among rank-and-file lawmakers presumably would improve dramatically if both White House and Obama were to signal their backing once the legislation is complete."The last thing I want to see happen is for the auto industry to disappear, but I'm also concerned that we don't put $10 billion or $20 billion or $30 billion or whatever billion dollars into an industry, and then, six months to a year later, they come back hat in hand and say, `Give me more,"' Obama said.Obama, who takes office Jan. 20, has drawn some criticism from Democrats who want him to become more involved in efforts to save the industry. The president-elect said his aides are monitoring developments and considering longer-term plans.He expressed no support for calls to allow the big carmakers to enter bankruptcy and said, "We don't want government to run companies." Instead, he said, "if taxpayer money is at stake -- which it appears may be the case -- we want to make sure that it is conditioned on an auto industry emerging at the end of the process that actually works, that actually functions."Taxpayers, I think are fed up. They're going through extraordinarily difficult times right now."Obama did not single out any individual executive by name for criticism, and said there had been incremental progress in the past 15 years toward a more competitive line of products."What we haven't seen is a sense of urgency and the willingness to make tough decisions. And what we still see are executive compensation packages for the auto industry that are out of line compared to their competitors, their Japanese competitors, who are doing a lot better," he said.Asked whether the top executives should remain in the jobs, he said, "Here's what I'll say, that it may not be the same for all the companies. But what I think we have to put an end to is the head-in-the-sand approach to the auto industry that has been prevalent for decades now."Later, at the news conference, he appeared to temper his comments, saying that current management should be ousted if it doesn't understand the urgent need to make changes in the industry.A breakthrough on the long-stalled rescue came Friday when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, yielded to President George W. Bush on a key point: allowing the aid to come from an existing fund set aside for the production of environmentally friendlier cars.The Big Three executives spent two consecutive days on Capitol Hill this past week pleading for as much as $34 billion in loans to help their industry survive. But they made clear that $15 billion would be enough to keep them running until the end of March 2009.Dodd appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" and Levin was on "Fox News Sunday." 

Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years.By Alan Silverleib CNNWASHINGTON . -- NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.The mission had been scheduled for launch in the fall of 2009.The Mars Science Lab is a large, nuclear-powered rover designed to traverse long distances with a suite of onboard scientific instruments aboard.It is, according to NASA's Web site, part of a "long-term effort of robotic exploration" established to "study the early environmental history of Mars" and assess whether Mars has ever been -- or still is -- able to sustain life.The delay of the launch, according to NASA, is due to a number of "testing and hardware challenges that must (still) be addressed to ensure mission success.""The progress in recent weeks has not come fast enough on solving technical challenges and pulling hardware together," said Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.Changing to a 2011 launch "will allow for careful resolution of any remaining technical problems, proper and thorough testing, and avoid a mad dash to launch," argued NASA Associate Administrator Ed Weiler.The overall cost of the Mars Science Lab is now projected to be roughly $2.1 billion, according to NASA spokesman Dwayne Browne. The project originally carried a price tag of $1.6 billion.NASA's entire budget for the current fiscal year, according to Browne, is approximately $15 billion.According to NASA, the Mars rover will use new technologies and be engineered to explore greater distances over rougher terrain than previous missions to the planet. This will be done in part by employing a new surface propulsion system."Failure is not an option on this mission," Weiler said. "The science is too important and the investment of American taxpayer dollars compels us to be absolutely certain that we have done everything possible to ensure the success of this flagship planetary mission."Weiler asserted that, based on the agency's preliminary evaluations, additional costs tied to the delay of the Science Lab launch would not result in the cancellation of other NASA programs over the next two years. He did, however, concede that it would result in other unspecified program delays.Critics have charged that the delay and cost overruns associated with the Mars Science Lab are indicative of an agency that is plagued by a lack of accountability and inefficiency in terms of its management of both time and taxpayer dollars."The Mars Science Laboratory is only the latest symptom of a NASA culture that has lost control of spending," wrote Alan Stern, a former NASA associate administrator, in a November 24 op-ed in the New York Times. "A cancer is overtaking our space agency: the routine acquiescence to immense cost increases in projects."Stern charged that the agency's cost overruns are being fueled by "managers who disguise the size of cost increases that missions incur" and "members of Congress who accept steep increases to protect local jobs."Browne replied in a written statement saying that NASA administrators are "constantly working to improve (the agency's) cost-estimating capabilities. ... We continually review our projects to understand the true risk in terms of performance, cost and schedule.""The fact of life at NASA, where we are charged with creating first-of-a-kind missions of scientific discovery, is that estimating the costs of ... science can be almost as difficult as actually doing the science," Browne said.NASA's most recent Mars project -- the mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander -- came to an end last month after the solar-powered vehicle's batteries ran down as the result of a dust storm and the onset of Martian winter. It had operated two months beyond its initial three-month mission.NASA officials had landed the vehicle on an arctic plain after satellite observations indicated there were vast quantities of frozen water in that area, most likely in the form of permafrost. They thought such a location would be a promising place to look for organic chemicals that would signal a habitable environment.Scientists were able to verify the presence of water-ice in the Martian subsurface, find small concentrations of salts that could be nutrients for life, and observe snow descending from the clouds, NASA said Thursday.

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A clean set of wheels.By Matthew Knight For CNNLONDON, England . -- For a century the petrol engine has remained largely unchallenged, seeing off all pretenders to its crown. But with dangerous climate change on the horizon and a host of contenders looming large in the rear view mirror, is the petrol engine about to be overtaken by a new fleet of cleaner, leaner rivals?Principal Voices takes a look at the competition.SCIENCE THAT WILL CELL?Hydrogen powered cars are emissions free -- expelling only drops of water from the exhaust -- and fuel cell technology is proven. NASA has been using hydrogen to power space missions since the 1960s.A fuel cell works by converting chemical energy into electrical energy which in turn powers the vehicle. Unlike electric cars they don't need recharging, just fuel.Earlier this year, Honda became the first manufacturer to complete production of the first commercial hydrogen fuel cell vehicle -- the FCX Clarity -- which is powered by a 100 kilowatt V Flow fuel cell stack.But they are expensive -- "hundreds of thousands of dollars each" says Honda -- and only 200 have been made (by hand). Honda is leasing out the FCX to a variety of hand-picked customers including actress Jamie Lee Curtis and Japan's Ministry of the Environment.Dozens of motor manufacturers are currently designing new cars with fuel cell technology.As part of its 2009 centenary celebrations, the UK's Morgan Motor Company is developing the LIFECar -- a lightweight fuel-efficient car based on the chassis of the company's Aero 8 model.The LIFECar is powered by a small fuel cell (22 kilowatts) which has been built by British defense contractor QinetiQ and has a set of ultracapacitors which helps it to accelerate a lot faster -- zero to 60 miles per hour in six to seven seconds.Dr Malcolm McCulloch, leader of the Electrical Power Group at the UK's Oxford University is helping Morgan with the electric motors and power electronics on the car."At the moment we are still doing tests on the car, but it looks like it will be emitting around 50 grams of carbon per km equivalent, which is five times better than most vehicles will do now," McCulloch told CNN.Being the most abundant chemical element in the universe, hydrogen isn't about to run out either.Professor Rob Thring, Chair in Fuel Cell Engineering at the UK's Loughborough University, told CNN: "If you go out a buy a bottle of hydrogen today it will almost certainly be manufactured from natural gas -- which is not very green."But there is a better way. If you electrolyze water using electricity you've made from wind turbines, wave or solar, then you can say that you have completely carbon free transportation."VERDICTHydrogen fuel cell cars aren't ready to take over from the petrol engine. They are currently very expensive to produce and Honda says that a production model is still a long way off. But in the long term they could be the best option. Fuel cell cars are an incredibly clean and efficient mode of transport."We need to build up the infrastructure in the same way that we did in the 1900s with petroleum," says Professor Thring. "The time it takes to roll out the infrastructure will depend on the incentive but I think a significant proportion of the total vehicle fleet will be hydrogen fueled in ten years time."Dr John Turner, Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado, U.S. says: "It's going to take a long time to build up a fuel cell manufacturing base. But for a species that wants to maintain the viability of the planet, hydrogen is perfect."OUR FRIENDS ELECTRIC?Historically, electric vehicles have been the destitute cousin of the petrol car with a popular perception as being slow and fiendishly uncool. In fact, the only person who wouldn't be seen dead driving one is a milkman.Recent additions to the electric family such as the REVA G-Wiz -- launched in 2001 -- have failed to erase the rather negative connotations of going electric.But the latest advances in battery technology could change the fortunes of electric cars dramatically. Powering cars with lithium-ion batteries is transforming their capabilities. They are lighter, require less maintenance and hold their charge much longer than old fashioned lead-acid batteries.The Tesla Roadster -- the much-hyped first fully electric sports car -- is powered by a lithium-ion battery and is proof that the electric car has moved on.With a full 3.5 hours charge it will travel 250 miles. The Roadster will go from zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds and has a top speed of 125 miles per hour. Less impressive is the price tag of around $100,000.Hot on the heels of Tesla is the UK's Lightning Car Company whose Lightning GT is even prettier than the Roadster and comes with a similar spec. It is even more expensive -- around $180,000 -- but does come with the option of a NanoSafe lithium titanate battery which can be charged in just 10 minutes.While these cars aren't exactly in reach of most people, there are plenty of new companies lining up to sell motorists an affordable electric vehicle.Founded in 2006 by two former Lotus engineers, Julian Wilford and Evert Geurtsen, the Nice Car Company and has a range of two, four wheel and commercial cars including the Mega City and the Mega MultiTruck.The Mega City costs around $18,000 and has a range of 60 miles on a full charge of eight hours. Perhaps a bit too pricey for the performance but costs should come down as take up increases.VERDICTOxford University's Dr McCulloch says that at the moment electric cars look like they might dominate the market in the coming years. "The advantage of batteries is that there is a ready infrastructure there," he said.Renault's electric vehicle project director, Serge Yoccoz, told the International Herald Tribune recently that he expects electric vehicles to represent as much as 20 percent of the European market in 10 years.And the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change has predicted -- perhaps rather boldly -- that 40 percent of cars on British roads will be electric by 2020 if tough greenhouse emissions targets are met.But Dr John Turner from the NREL isn't convinced that electric cars are the way to go long term. "Batteries are a material intensive technology. As you buy more batteries the costs don't necessarily go down," he said."The nickel metal hydride battery they use in the [Toyota] Prius is a classic example. If the demand for nickel goes up the price goes up."And it was reported earlier this month that Toyota is still losing money on the Prius because of the cost -- close to $5000 -- of the battery.Click here to read what the experts say about air and solar powered vehicles

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