The future of cars may be electric, but bringing that future into the present will require tough policy decisions to be made by governments. A new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance and McKinsey & Company reaffirms what MIT Technology Review has said in the past: by 2030, electric vehicles will be a dominant mode of transport. In fact, the new research estimates that as many as two-thirds of all cars on the road in…
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