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Will electric cars ever be able to go truly off grid?
Recently, I drove the Dacia Spring, a small electric car with a 140-mile range when new (and warm and not on a motorway). Also last week, my munchkins climbed into a 16-year-old small car and drove 140 miles to camp at a wet music festival. When they had …