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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lizzie Wingfield

Large and on charge: How to drive to Italy and back in an electric car

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Last year I drove my Renault Zoe to Tuscany. I won’t traumatise you with the full details of my five-day journey, replete with broken chargers, removed chargers, impossible-to-access chargers, and chargers demanding a valid Italian tax code before they would cough up kilowatts – but suffice to say it took most of the holiday for my heart rate to return to normal.

So when I announced that I was going to do it all over again this year, my friends used words like “brave” and “very brave”.

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