Will its streets be full of electric cars, some of them self-driving? Will they take up electric cars – in effect, just a cleaner version of what they already had – or switch modes of transport altogether? EVs also emit more carbon over their life cycle than any form of urban transport except petrol cars. About 5.5 million e-bikes were sold in the EU in 2022, against just two million electric cars. Looking back in five years, we may conclude that electric cars were made for American suburbia and for almost nowhere else.

Source: The Irish Times January 21, 2024 03:21 UTC