I currently own a VW Golf diesel, which I'm planning to sell back to VW in a couple of months because of the VW diesel emissions cheating scandal. I plan to replace the Golf with a hybrid or plug-in hybrid, and the Volt looks appealing in many ways. There is a complication for a plug-in, though...

Within six months all 276 miles of the interstate between Canada and Oregon will be peppered with electric charging points for your car of the future, in a project that'll turn it into the electric interstate of the 21st Century. A small section of U.S. 2 in Washington State will also get the...