Transport looking for a lane change

IT is unsurprising that the sun and the wind are grabbing many headlines. After all, the power sector is a huge emitter of carbon dioxide. But transport, a lesser evil, is also engaged in a struggle to alter the course.

Sustainable transport is critical to combating climate change as well as creating energy security. The sector accounts for more than 90 per cent of oil use and about a quarter of heat-trapping emissions.

But changes have been rather slow. The entrenched industry must protect its profit-yielding turfs as alternative-power trains take time to deliver. However, technology firms, which have few such compulsions, have turned up the heat on the industry.