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EPISODE · Jan 31, 2025 · 4 MIN

What will happen to petrol when we all drive electric cars?

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists · host Dr Chris Smith

Kevin wants to know, assuming many of us will be driving electric cars in the future, what will happen to the vast quantities of petrol currently refined from crude oil? Will we scale back production? Or can industry adapt? To help James Tytko with the answer, we hear from Professor Nilay Shah, Director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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