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Electric vehicles are rapidly taking off – but is that a good thing?

One in five cars sold worldwide in 2023 will be electric, but a mass shift away from the internal combustion engine will bring its own problems

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Show children how to make a simple electric motor with a magnet

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Model of an electric motor

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Gel-coated battery could stop mobile phones catching fire or exploding

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A crane lifts a weight for energy storage

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Fix the Planet newsletter: The weird and wonderful rivals to batteries

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Jenson Button in Extreme E car

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Jenson Button: ‘Extreme E is great racing without combustion engines’

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Driftwood could be recycled into cleaner electric car batteries

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UK switch to hydrogen vehicles would need thousands more wind turbines

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