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Toddington Harper

Toddington Harper: waiting to go electric is a fatal mistake

I often hear people saying maybe they’ll get an electric car someday soon. Definitely their next car. No rush. Maybe they’re waiting for that mystical day when hydrogen vehicles might somehow make sense? Or wait until the range improves?

But waiting is fatal. In April the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change alerted the world that we have less than 1,000 days to reach peak carbon emissions and start reducing them to give the world a chance of limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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