Why politics in a thread about Porsche's desire to do an electric prototype Boxster?
Europe is way ahead of us on the mileage issue because of their gas prices. Spent two week there this summer and the cars are smaller, diesel, have manual transmissions, not to mention the tons of scooters everywhere.
It would be foolish for Porsche (or any other carmaker) not to explore electric technology. The Boxster is the most logical for conversion IMHO.