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SwitchedOn Podcast: We can’t build cities around cars, even if they’re electric

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Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and lead author on transport for the IPCC, Peter Newman, says electric transport not only provides an opportunity to produce healthier, net zero vehicles, it enables us to rethink and build healthier, better cities.

 

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