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Who Killed the All-Electric Car?

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Electric cars (EV) seem like the best thing since sliced bread. The liquid fuels they do not burn make more oil available for heavy-duty trucks, ships, and planes. It should not escape our notice that there are very few electric trucks and no electric ships or planes. Later in this book, we will explore those possibilities, but for now, suffice to say they are not so easily electrified (Long 2011).

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Friedemann, A.J. (2016). Who Killed the All-Electric Car?. In: When Trucks Stop Running. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26375-5_12

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