..in italy too. you can count hybrid or electric cars with the fingers of your hands..thats for many reasons. The first one is that money counts more then the ecology...Here the zero pollution car are like "star wars" . but now thanks God something is changing. for example now you've to pay to reach the milan city center (to keep low the number of cars and pollution level down , as in london), the new diesel are equipped with a filter that limits the level of dust (diesel pollution emission i don't know how translate it) biodiesel is a reality in north europe.... we'll see....