“a big battery means fewer stops”

THE CHANCES ARE that if you drive a petrol or diesel car and find that you need more fuel part-way through a long journey, you don’t give it much thought, because you know you’ll be able to locate a s

MILEAGE 2801 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Is this the best cheap EV on the market? If you have a scientific background, please look away now. Go on, turn the page; Alex has written about cheap Bentleys. For t

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PANDA AND INSTER TOO TITCHY for you? Similar money can bag you a 4.3m long SUV with electric power too. Vauxhall’s entire car lineup offers an EV powertrain, all of which get the £1,500 government gra

PERFORMANCE: This is the manufacturer’s claimed acceleration time for a car, and is measured from 0-60mph or 0-62mph (0-100km/h), in seconds. ECONOMY/EMISSIONS/RANGE: Combined WLTP economy in miles pe

Pocket sized electric city cars make sense in all sorts of ways. They’re quiet, smooth, automatic, simple and can outpace the tinny zing of a delivery moped from the lights, even if you’re not really