This comes 2 months after Trump declared victory over the so-called climate crisis and Ford recently backing away from manufacturing electric vehicles.

The European Union has abandoned plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035, bowing to pressure from Germany and Italy.

Under proposals slammed by green groups as an act of “self-sabotage”, carmakers will have to cut exhaust emissions from new vehicles by 90 per cent from 2021 levels, down from an envisaged 100 per cent.

This means that in practice, carmakers will still be able to sell a limited number of polluting vehicles – from plug-in hybrids to diesel cars – beyond 2035, provided the resulting emissions are “compensated” in various ways.

The electric vehicle market was evolving on its own, irrespective of the regulations the EU aimed to force upon its people, and this transformation was most evident in the United States, where power alternated between administrations and ideologies that were polar opposites.

No surprise environmentalist groups berated the decision to reverse the prohibition. their climate alarmist policies are ways they use to try to enslave people. Electric vehicles are very expensive to own and maintain and, if the ban had gone through, only wealthy people would be able to afford them. People who are poor and middle class would have to resort to public transportation.

In other words, independent transportation would only be available to the wealthy and well connected.