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Environmental impacts of electric vehicles in South Africa
Submitted: 25 January 2011 | Published: 20 January 2012
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Xinying Liu, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaDiane Hildebrandt, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
David Glasser, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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