I sit down with Mats Larsson, a sustainability researcher who explains how no country is at present prepared for the change to electromobility and no country will be able to build the power and charging systems necessary to make it possible to stop the manufacturing and sales of petrol and diesel cars from 2035. More realistic plans need to be made that take into account all the activities that need to be undertaken to facilitate a smooth transfer to the new systems.

Countries depend on cost-effective transportation and a cost-effective supply of power, so realistic goals need to be set and all the necessary activities need to be co-ordinated to make the changes successful.

Countries need to learn from previous technology development and implementation projects, many of which have in the early stages been driven in the US, to a large extent financed by the US government. Examples are the developments of space technologies (first in the Apollo programme), computers, the Internet, airplane technologies etc, but there are many examples from Europe as well, such as power systems, railways, telephony, and mobile telephony.