Alec Hogg: As Mercedes goes all-electric, boost for renewables in cheap storage breakthrough

Ours is a complex world, a reality lost on those seeking to support agendas or promote simplistic solutions. We see this playing out in SA through attempts to classify all "excess deaths" of the past 18 months as a direct result of being infected by the coronavirus. Caution is required.

The article republished below from our partners at The Wall Street Journal digs into data showing American life expectancy in 2020 fell by the most since WW2 and, at 77.3 years, is back to where it was in 2003. The writer asks some tough questions of the official narrative – especially on surging mortalities among younger people. Local parallels are obvious.

Mercedes-Benz will immediately stop creating new internal combustion engine models as part of a strategy to go "all electric" by the end of this decade. The German auto maker with a stranglehold on SA's luxury car market yesterday revealed it will invest $47bn over the next eight years to accelerate this move. Given its impact on resale values, local Mercedes owners may not be quite so enthusiastic.

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