100,000 Cars Running on Windpower in 2013
Denmark has long been a world-leader in wind energy and now the country will act as a laboratory for the development of infrastructure for electric cars, using wind power to charge the new vehicles.

The main reason is that in five years Denmark will have wind turbine capacity enough for 1 million homes. This goal will be reached when the world’s largest offshore wind turbine farm opens in 2012, between Anholt and Djursland.
(Via Copenhagenize.com – The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog)

Do you know why Denmark is a leader in renewable energy? Because when Ronald Reagan tore down the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House, he also removed tax incentives to renewable energy companies, who had to sell their technology to… companies from Japan and Denmark. Check this out:

“It is one of our fastest-growing export areas,” said Hedegaard. It is one reason that unemployment in Denmark today is 1.6 percent. In 1973, said Hedegaard, “we got 99 percent of our energy from the Middle East. Today it is zero.”