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22nd November 2021

You may be interested in watching Channel 4 'Dispatches' programme, 'The Truth About Electric Cars' at 8.30pm tonight (22nd November 2021). Primarily this will be looking at the state of the U.K.'s electric vehicle infrastructure, plus some aspects of some of the vehicles... The information/views expressed below are from Channel 4. They tells us: Some hybrids are worse than diesel cars … [Read more...]

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