http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40518293
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.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 07 2017, @07:08PM (4 children)
the US can just copy what works and improve upon it in the process.
If that were true we would've copied their medical system by now. It's vastly superior by every metric.
(Score: 3, Touché) by digitalaudiorock on Friday July 07 2017, @07:56PM
Indeed. The 'pubs love quoting the famous Winston Churchill statement "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.", yet do everything imaginable to prove that even that was far too generous.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @11:14PM
The reason the Europeans' bad system hasn't been adopted in place of the Americans' worse system, is because there are a lot of Americans who see another system that is even better: A Free Market.
The fighting between ideologues makes it difficult to adopt any system in particular.
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Saturday July 08 2017, @02:09AM
I would rather be in debt than in pain or dead.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @05:12AM
Their metric system is another thing America isn't ready for.