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In Focus: Petrol crisis fuels interest in electric vehicles

By 2021-10-29T10:54:00

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The push towards a greener future will see electric vehicles increasingly come into play, but the insurance industry still has more to learn about this mode of transport

Following the UK’s petrol crisis in early October, caused by a shortage of drivers for heavy goods vehicles (HGV) and fuel tanks which subsequently saw a bottleneck in the supply chain, interest in electric vehicles (EVs) has escalated.

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