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L.A. fires have added another concern for potential EV buyers: Power outages

Growth in EV sales continue to slide, but consumer appetite for hybrids has increased. Range anxiety has been one factor denting EV sales, and another emerged during the L.A. fires when hundreds of thousands of people lost power.

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