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How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years

6 September 2017

Battery-powered buses could have killed off the internal combustion engine long ago, if only the company making them hadn't been run by swindlers

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

23 August 2017

Can the planet change over to 100 per cent clean and renewable energy fast enough to avoid extreme climate impacts? Yes it can, says Mark Jacobson

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