Besides his dishonesty, divisive style and rampant misogyny Donald Trump continues his attack on the natural environment and the elaborate system that is in place in the United States to protect it and also to ensure that U.S. citizens enjoy clean water and air.

A switch to electric vehicles will transform the energy grid, improve the livability of cities, slow climate change and also have geo-political implications as well as potentially improving China's global position in the industrial landscape.

The headlines from the Geneva Auto show last week make appear to indicate that electric vehicles are finally approaching what Malcolm Gladwell called The Tipping Point in his book by the same name. Whether they actually make it still remains to be seen but is, in my view, becoming increasingly likely.