The Big Picture
Vincent Boland: Brakes go on the move to the brave new electric car world
The revolution might not be going to plan, with a drop in EV sales worldwide raising questions about the shift to greener travel
The car as we know it is dead. That was the prediction a few years ago as the global auto industry prepared for the switch to electric vehicles. Out would go the fossil fuel-guzzling models we drove for a century. In would come the gleaming, gliding battery-powered car that would change how we drive and how we live, stop climate change and make pollution history.
Hold that thought, because things might not be going exactly ...
