First drive: volkswagen id.7

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Engineers don’t like plug-in hybrids. It’s the ‘two engines rather than one’ factor, and all that extra associated ballast. Marketing types have always liked them, though – dare I say, because they un

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Three years ago, Kia surprised us with the original version of its hot EV6. These were the dark days before our world got lit up by the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. Here came Kia with a car that didn’t just hav

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‘ EVangelists’ love to shout that range doesn’t matter because many people can charge at home and because the rapid-charge network has become really quite sophisticated. But the fact is that autonomy