Estonia is in the news, with what is claimed to be the world's first nationwide car charging network. The chargers are "fast chargers", designed to charge the battery in 30 minutes rather than a more typical 8 hours (c.f. Britain's car charging network - which looks pretty nationwide for England anyway to me). To be fair, 55 of Britain's points are also rapid.
Students on Energy and Sustainability will notice a ironic connection here: in TMA02 not only did battery electric vehicle technology come up but so did Estonia in another respect, it is a major producer and consumer of shale oil. So the power to run these electric cars comes from one of the dirtiest fuel sources we have. Still, it illustrates the fact that electric vehicles are an enabling technology: make the elecrtricity source cleaner and the cars automatically become cleaner, no waiting years until they are replaced.