Who Won the U.S. Presidential Debate?

Much money and time has been spent recently persuading people not to be so reliant on cars. And there are certainly good reasons—for our health and the environment—to move about more on foot, by bike or on trains.

Yet cars are still an essential form of transport around the world. In many countries, including the UK, outside of the few metropolitan areas with decent public transport, people depend on them.

But car owners face an increasingly difficult choice. For many, electric vehicles are still too expensive and considered too risky in terms of driving range, battery costs and charging infrastructure.

Private customers are not buying as many of them as was expected, and are choosing to keep hold of their old petrol and diesel cars instead.

Yet at the same time, car manufacturers are shifting their production to electric vehicles, and have reduced making replacement parts for the petrol and diesel vehicles.

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