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How Electric Cars Became A Battleground In The Culture Wars
05 Aug 2023 | Abstracted from The Guardian
"EVs have become weaponised amid fears over cost of shift to battery power and job losses at carmakers"
"Politicians, newspapers and TV presenters from the right in particular are drawing battle lines that crudely divide the supposedly eco-conscious wealthy in their electric cars (and trains) from the hard-pressed working-class in their cheap but essential petrols and diesels."
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