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Best electric cars to buy 2022

As car companies aim to outdo each other on range, power and gadgets, the choice of EVs can be overwhelming. We’ve wrapped up the best of those launching this year

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Killing the roar: electric vehicles can calm us down

Dr Duncan Williams explains how electric cars’ quieter engines can help to reduce the stress of modern life – but only if we want them to

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Sam Bird: ‘We’ve reached the ceiling with fossil fuel cars’

Former Formula 1 driver Sam Bird has been driving Jaguar TCS in the Formula E (electric) world championships since 2014. He says proper petrolheads like him should be excited by electric

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Toddington Harper: waiting to go electric is a fatal mistake

The CEO of clean-energy start-up GRIDSERVE on why we should seize the moment

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‘Policies should enable electrification for the many, not the few’

Original Top Gear presenter and founder of the FairCharge campaign argues that VAT needs to be cut ‒ now! ‒ on electricity for public car chargers

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