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EVs may be less flexible, but can your petrol car power a camping trip?

Last week, I drove the Dacia Spring (p26), a small EV 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 to stop to refuel (once, on their way home), it took them only a few minutes.

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