We've known how to build electric cars since long before Tesla came around. And yet, for more than 100 years, we've largely relied on the internal combustion engine running on gasoline to get us from A to B. But that's changing – faster than we might expect.

Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Camera: Henning Goll
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk

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Read more:
Electric car history:
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...

BloombergNEF's EV Outlook report:
https://about.bnef.com/electric-vehic...

IEA's EV Outlook report:
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/ass...

EVs and the S-curve:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.wemea...

Special thanks to: Corey Cantor, EV Analyst at BloombergNEF, for a background interview.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 EV history 101
03:32 Change is afoot
05:36 The S-curve
07:47 What needs solving
10:00 Conclusion