Transportation is one of the biggest contributors to global warming, but electric vehicles remain largely impractical or unattainable in many parts of the world. And the power used to charge EV batteries is often derived from fossil fuel while other types of transportation, like air travel, remain resistant to sustainable change. In this episode of An Optimist's Guide to the Planet, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau meets people in Kenya, Switzerland and the US who are working to remove these three big hurdles between us and a true transportation revolution.
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