In 2017, electric vehicles accounted for only 1 percent of vehicle sales worldwide. Thanks to new policies by governments-particluarly in China-and actions by manufacturers, that's about to change quickly. This Bloomberg QuickTake investigates what our electric automotive future might look like, and how fast it could get here.

Originally released by Bloomberg , 2018. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 10, 2019.

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