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An electric shock

  we have been hearing that the time will come when there will be no more petrol or diesel-powered motor vehicles built – two, three or four-wheeled. More recently, the exact date being increasingly bandied about is 2030, just eight years hence. A number of factors have fuelled (pardon the pun) this headlong rush to so-called

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