The car industry has no other choice. Pointed at, sometimes wrongly, as a major responsible of global warming, and discredited by the multiple cheating scandals of polluting discharges, it must make its technological revolution via the fairy electricity. Tour horizon of the models that are preparing to change our lives as motorists.

Many Western countries, signatories of the Paris climate agreement, seem to have definitively sealed the future of gasoline and diesel engines by 2040. Difficult for the latter to erase more than a century of exploitation of the explosion engine, and its consequences in terms of image, vis-a-vis newcomers "white as snow", like Tesla, "Zero emission" motoring.

Tesla is no longer alone in the world, despite an ambitious product plan and the arrival of the Model Y SUV, a pickup truck, and then a roadster. New brands, assembled from scratch, like the Californian Faraday, or Chinese Nio, are invited to the party.

Other groups are ahead of the curve, such as the Renault-Nissan Alliance, already producing several hundred thousand copies of the Renault Zoe and Nissan Leaf, the world's No. 1 seller.

The PSA Group has lagged behind, but intends to catch up with its Chinese partner Dongfeng, with which it is currently developing an electric platform, including the SUV DS3 Crossback will be the first realization in 2019.
Largely destabilized by the Volkswagen scandal, the group of the same name makes the electric car its priority for the next few years. Porsche will launch a sedan and SUV in 2019. But the survival of the group will come first and foremost through the democratization of electric power via its popular brands: Seat, Skoda and Volkswagen, which will alternate the launches of city cars and SUVs between 2020 and 2022.

BMW can boast of being a pioneer among its German compatriots with the success of the i3 and i8. The range will unfold in 2019 with an electric X3, then an i5 in 2021. Similarly, its satellite brands embodied by Mini and Rolls-Royce, will soon taste lithium.

Mercedes, for its part, bet on the badge "EQ", officialized at the Paris 2016 World Cup. An SUV will release for the first time this blazon in 2019, waiting for two sedans to 2021 horizon.

The countdown has begun for the biggest challenge that the automotive sector has ever known.
 

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