How IKEA plans to deliver its goods via electric trucks and vans

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Retail giant reveals how it is preparing to deploy electric fleets in some of its key markets

Last year, when then-California Gov. Jerry Brown brought the world's climate leaders together in San Francisco for his Global Climate Action Summit, IKEA CEO Jesper Brodin took the opportunity to announce...

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