envirovehicle: the gem

heard a report on npr today about something called a "global electric motorcar" or gem. they're pretty much glorified golf carts, and they're still priced out of our range, but how cool would one be for driving around oxford? short of a smartcar (i can never get enough of pasting that link in posts), it's probably the best we could do, price-wise, to cut back on petrol usage. of course, i could just walk to work, but it's about 400 degrees here 11 months out of the year.