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These cleaner cars use the same roads, highways and bridges as their internal combustion engine counterparts. , going to get ice cream, visiting grandparents on the weekends, or heading to the fair. But something’s changed. Despite cars getting ridiculously large and heavy, the sales of hybrids and EVs have skyrocketed. This is the pickle.
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