Electric vehicles: Ireland risks being left in the slow lane

THE move towards electric vehicles appears to be unstoppable and it is now entirely feasible that, within a generation or so, petrol and diesel fuelled cars will become as rare as the gramophone.

Paris authorities plan to banish all petrol- and diesel-fuelled cars from the world’s most visited city by 2030.

“Transport is one of the main greenhouse gas producers... so we are planning an exit from combustion engine vehicles, or fossil-energy vehicles, by 2030,” said the city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, announcing the policy.