There are a lot more electric cars (or at least hybrid) these days — But the annoying thing about anything that is good for you or the environment is that they are almost always marketed as a luxury or semi-luxury item, and the prices are not suitable for adoption by the average person. Of course, there is the whole thing that, if they were easy to get hold of, they would turn the political and economical aspects of the world on their collective heads — but that’s a whole other issue.