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Why electric cars are finally taking over

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Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
September 16, 2022

We've known how to build electric cars since long before Tesla came around. And yet, for more than 100 years, we've largely relied on the internal combustion engine running on gasoline to get us from A to B. But that's changing – faster than we might expect.

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world and challenges the way we are dealing with climate change.

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