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When will Kenyan hustlers start owning electric cars?

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A car charging station at Naivasha. [XN Iraki]

Electric cars are the future; everyone seems to agree. Their adoption is driven by climatic change and the reality we rarely want to face, one day the world will run out of oil.

If the reasons to adopt electric cars are that convincing, why are electric cars so few? Why does the model of the car matter more than the method of propulsion?

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