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Why electric cars are finally taking over

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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. DW Planet A explores the history of EVs and what we still need to solve for.

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