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Mar 2019
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German carmakers go electric

Financial Times
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The German car industry came late to electric vehicles, but has now embraced the technology with gusto. Patrick McGee asked industry executives to describe the moment when they realised that electric vehicles were the future.


Contributors: Josh Noble, weekend news editor and Patrick McGee, Frankfurt correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon


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