Electric cars: the twilight of the heat engine
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Electric car sales are exploding across Europe, which could wipe out the production of combustion engine cars by 2030. (Photo illustration) REUTERS / Dado Ruvic
By: Frédérique Lebel
21 mins
Sales of electric cars are exploding all over Europe, even if we remain far from the medium-term objectives set by the European Commission to protect the environment
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The IAA, the largest
German
international
auto show opens its doors to the public today in Munich, and not in Frankfurt, as before.
New clothes in the form of a new start for this juggernaut of the country's economy: more than 10% of the GDP and nearly a fifth of its exports.
A rapidly changing sector with the switch to the electric motor which worries professionals and politicians.
Up to a third of the 613,000 jobs directly or indirectly linked to the production of cars with thermal engines could disappear by 2030. This is a report by
Julien Mechaussie
.
In the UK, Sunderland turns to electric
Sunderland's
future is
brightening.
This city in southwest
England
, which voted 61% for Brexit, is already home to the Nissan car plant said to be endangered by leaving the European Union.
But from now on, London wants to make of this industrial basin, a bastion of new technologies.
With our correspondent in London,
Marie Billon
.
And after the car?
The plane ?
Making a return trip from Paris to New York on an all-electric airliner is still science fiction.
But some, like Raphaël Domjan, want to believe that it is possible.
So to prove that the future of aviation depends on renewable energies, this
Swiss
pilot and adventurer
wants to reach the stratosphere with a 100% solar plane.
The device is called
Solar Stratos
and it is currently being tested in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel.
Jérémie Lanche
went to attend one of the test flights.
This is my Europe, the chronicle of Alice Rouja.
This week we are talking about single use plastics.
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