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ON THE FACE of it, you’d think small hatches would be one of the very first genres to migrate successfully to electric power, but anyone looking at the market as a whole in the past few years will have seen it atrophying. The reason? There’s little to no profit margin in these cars.

Electrification could change that as manufacturers charge more for vehicles which Bloomberg predicts will be cheaper to build than ICE vehicles by 2026. That’s only

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