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Leon Poultney

I’ve driven the Dacia Spring – and this EV is cut-price electric motoring at its bare-bones best

Dacia Spring.

There is a deafening cry on internet forums, comments sections and – dare we say it – certain tech websites for more affordable electric vehicles. So far, passenger cars with battery packs and electric motors have been expensive, they depreciate at a startling rate, and they generally alienate anyone counting the pennies at the end of each month.

"Electric vehicles are for the rich!" is the overarching, often shouty sentiment, but things are changing and the Dacia Spring, which I've recently driven, is the perfect embodiment of this impending sea change.

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