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Tech Breakthrough Could Help Slumping Electric Car Sales
Posted by Elizabeth Zubia on
While electric vehicles have long been touted as the future of the automotive industry, with Tesla becoming not only a household name but a veritable celebrity in and of itself, the industry is facing serious hurdles to growth and more widespread adoption. The oil industry has waged a quiet but well-documented war against the adoption of electric vehicles in the United States. This week Politico reported that “groups backed by industry giants like Exxon Mobil and the Koch empire are waging a state-by-state, multimillion-dollar battle to squelch utilities’ plans to build charging stations across the country.” Meanwhile, in China, which has all...