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Car batteries with tiny heaters could charge in just 11 minutes

A battery that includes tiny heaters inside it can be charged to 70 per cent, the equivalent to a range of more than 300 kilometres for an electric car, in just 11 minutes

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/Shutterstock (12834270d) A Tesla electric car using an EV Charging Point in London. According to the consumer group Which?, 31% of electric car owners reported problems with their vehicle in the first four years compared with 19% with petrol cars, and 29% with diesel cars. The survey found that the most common faults with electric vehicles were software issues, not motor or battery problems. Electric cars may be less reliable than petrol and diesel cars in London, UK - 03 Mar 2022

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Too many electric cars charging at night may overload electrical grid

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Model of an electric motor

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

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Power supply connect to electric vehicle for charge to the battery. Charging technology industry transport which are the futuristic of the Automobile. EV fuel Plug in hybrid car

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Supercharging tweak could fill electric car batteries 90% in 10 mins

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Kevin Hansen and Niclas Groenholm perform during the World Rallycross Championship in Hell, Norway on August 13, 2022.

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All-electric rallycross leads motorsport’s transition away from petrol

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A Ukrainian soldier observing the area at a destroyed bridge

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Efforts to regulate 'killer robots' are threatened by war in Ukraine

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

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A stock image of a driverless electric car

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Driverless cars can be tricked into seeing red traffic lights as green

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Electric car plugged in and changing on urban city street

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Fix the Planet newsletter: Solving charging anxiety for electric cars

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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

As Scotland announces the building of 17 enormous wind farms off its coast, we look at the novel solutions for storing the electricity they will produce

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

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Electric cars expected to outsell diesel ones in the UK next year

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What’s next now Tesla is worth a trillion dollars?

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No councils in England introduced incentives for green number plates

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