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Energy & environment

Driving value in eight minutes

MPs criticise government's "vague and unambitious" electric vehicle plans

Robust composite to reduce price of converting solar heat to electricity

Carbon fibre can act as a structural battery component in vehicle bodies

City of dreaming wires: Siemens and Oxford Uni to explore virtual power network

Stabilising mat offers hope for commercialising lithium sulphur batteries

Last week's poll: limiting global warming to 1.5° C

Protests in Lancashire as Cuadrilla fracking set to resume

UK’s first marine hydrogen injection system funded for Orkney ferry

Fashion faux pas as microplastics are traced to synthetic textiles

Printed perovskite solar cell shows industry appeal

Solving the problem of lithium-ion battery ageing