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GREEN MOTORING:To judge by media reports, you'd be forgiven for thinking the age of the combustion engine was over and a period of electric car enlightenment was upon us. Thanks for the memories Gottlieb and Karl, but we're moving on: for this is the age of the electric car, writes PADDY COMYN

Hold on a minute: have we not heard all this before? Almost out of nowhere we are talking about electric cars like they are the glaringly obvious answer to questions we have asked for over a century. But it isn't really that simple. While electricity transformed the way we illuminated our homes and powered our workplaces, it never quite caught on as a power source for transport.