Independent (UK): Anyone watching a late 1980s movie nowadays is reduced to giggles when they spot someone using a “mobile” phone the size of a cornflakes packet. Perhaps in 15 years’ time we will look back at today’s electric vehicles with the same bemused nostalgia. Mobile phones have come an astonishing distance in two decades and the same will happen with the electric car. Mainstream companies such as General Motors, Renault-Nissan and BMW are investing in it. It is the greenest way to get around — …