Independent: Gordon Brown is to launch the biggest revolution in the way Britons drive since the development of the internal combustion engine. He will meet manufacturers this week to try to persuade them to mass-produce electric cars, and is considering a remarkable plan to sell the cars cheap, together with their fuel, that is modelled on mobile-phone contracts. The scheme, which has already been taken up by Israel and Denmark, would sell heavily subsidised vehicles – or even give them away – in …