17 - 9. POURING RAIN

We left the hotel two hours early in pouring rain. With help from Serena's GPS we arrived at the Danish embassy in time in spite of morning rush-hour. We parked Green Car in the embassy and a journalist from the best net-media in Beijing made an interview with us. The ambassador Mr. Friis and Henrik the environmental counsellor admired Green Car, which gave a little show. We all agreed that electric cars have a great future in China - and the world. I think electric cars can solve some of the pollution but not the congestion of the streets. When the five ring-roads of Beijing already have twenty lanes what do you do then? If you enlarge all roads to 40 lanes there will be room for more cars and fewer homes. If you enlarge to 80 lanes you will soon run out of space for living.

Nina