Yet some members of the influential Green Party in Paris have been vocal critics, even though the proposal calls for electric cars.
Along with fellow Councilman Rafael Espinal, he called for electric buses to, at least, cut back on carbon emissions from already-packed streets.
The climate committee's call for 1.7m electric cars in the UK by 2020 was extremely optimistic, he said, and would require batteries to become much cheaper and conventional cars far more expensive through taxation and fuel prices.
There are various measures for energy efficiency that should help, and a call for subsidising electric cars and putting in a national car-charging network.Ideas for how to pay for such a system could end up in the bailiwick of a new institution that would work closely with the climate committee: the government's proposed Green Investment Bank.
Called the Sport Hybrid Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) system, it calls for an electric motor for each front wheel, with the third helping with the rear wheels.
"If we did that … if my father did that, they'd have people calling for the electric chair.
The Obama administration's current goal calls for one million electric vehicles to be on the road in the United States by 2015.
The program included "Wind Piece," a composition by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that called for huge electric fans to be stationed in the orchestra, blowing the pages of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony at random on players' music stands.
Another reason for the sizable turnout was the promise of spectacle: Mr. Chatham's "Crimson Grail (Outdoor Version)," commissioned by Lincoln Center, called for 200 electric guitarists and 16 bass guitarists.
Simultaneously, the speaker of the House, John A. Boehner of Ohio, made sure the chairmanship of the immigration subcommittee was denied to Representative Steve King, the virulently anti-immigration congressman from Iowa who, in calling for an electric fence to be erected on the border, likened illegal immigrants to "livestock".
Nudge also helped a company called The New Motion, who provide electricity networks for electric cars in Holland.
