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They don't. An electric motor is designed to convert electrical energy to kinetic energy, not the other way round. A device that converts kinetic energy to electrical energy is called a generator or a dynamo. Sometimes the same device can do both things (convert in both directions), but since the device is especially optimized for one function, it may not be very good at the other one.

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An electric motor converts electrical energy to KINETIC energy: it makes something move.

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An electric motor converts electric potential energy into rotational kinetic energy. That is, the motor's shaft is rotating.

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