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When José Amado-Blanco gets up in the morning, he says to himself “come on, let's go change the world!” And the 35-year-old has already done just that in one area. Together with Tobias Gunzenhauser an

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In Winterthur, two small electric vehicles that are powered by cells from former e-bike batteries take care of road maintenance. The batteries come from Libattion , a recently started company in Glatt