Irish Examiner view: EV target for 2030 a flight of fancy now

It is clear to pretty much everyone that our world is not yet ready for fully electric motoring

The twin announcements on Monday that the EU will ease its proposed 2035 ban on new cars with internal combustion engines and that Ford is set to scale back its plans for electric vehicle production, is not good news for clean energy targets here or around the world.

A bright new — and clean — future for the automotive sector was supposed to have been heralded by the imposition of this EU ban when it was proposed a number of years ago and, largely, the car manufacturing industry took it on board, because there were not many viable alternatives.