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: 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.