Bending the curve: Accelerating adoption rate signals success for EVs, and trouble for the oil industry

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How quickly consumers embrace electric vehicles will be critical to the fate of oil majors - but the early signs are promising

Are electric vehicles more like mobile phones or flushing toilets? A little over two decades after the first mobile phones emerged there are already around 4.7 billion mobile phone users. Centuries after...

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