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France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a "revolution".
Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal.
He said France planned to become carbon neutral by 2050.
Hybrid cars make up about 3.5% of the French market, with pure electric vehicles accounting for just 1.2%.
It is not yet clear what will happen to existing fossil fuel vehicles still in use in 2040.
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(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Saturday July 08 2017, @05:07AM
Amen my friend. But there are many reasons in addition to free spirit why the automobile is the staple of American culture. For one thing in a country this vast, it be hard to live without it. Tiny European countries can get away with not having cars because you can cross those countries by train in mere hours. But American is a huge country and barely inhabited. Only other place with similar density would be Canada and Russia (And the land Down Under). But I digress, as as long as we have the other staple, guns, no one will take the cars from us.