Guardian: The car industry has poured cold water on Gordon Brown’s offer to provide a £2,000 subsidy to purchasers of electric cars – a move that one automotive analyst described as a “pointless soundbite”. Asked by the Guardian for details of the offer, a spokeswoman for Lord Mandelson’s department of business said No 10 was taking the lead on the initiative. A No 10 spokeswoman said Mandelson’s department had the details. It was reported this week that the government was planning to …