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What They Really Mean for You:

Season 1

What They Really Mean for You

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How people drive, heat their homes and keep the lights on needs massive change. But what will it take to make it happen?

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Episode 1: Electric Cars

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Michelle Ackerley presents the first of two programmes exploring aspects of modern life that need to change to protect the environment, which focuses on the switch to electric cars. The programme explores the obstacles in electric vehicles becoming the standard, from cost to the difficulty of charging, while BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt explores if the UK is on track to hit the government's targets to stop emitting greenhouse gases by 2050

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Ceri Thomas

The BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt crams a lot into this hour-long programme. Alongside presenter Michelle Ackerley and environmental scientist Dr Tara Shine, he looks into how electric cars work, from the way that the motors operate to what goes into creating the batteries that power them, and finds out if the UK is on target to abandon petrol vehicles ahead of the 2050 net-zero deadline.

There are some fun and hopeful moments — Rowlatt has a great time with a Welsh motoring enthusiast who converts Aston Martins and Ferraris to electric, for instance — but overall the message is that there’s still a great deal of work to be done.

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rolenamePresenterMichelle AckerleyUnknownJustin RowlattUnknownDr Tara ShineExecutive producerAndrew ShawExecutive producerSam BagnallSeries producerTim Usborne

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