Our first EV holiday gave us ‘range anxiety’. But our fears were soon left in the rearview mirror

‘I wonder, though, if the electric car might fundamentally change the way we do road trips’ writes Paul Daley. Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images

I quickly discovered two important things when recently taking a three week drive over several thousand kilometres in an electric car. The first is that “range anxiety’’ is very real. The second is that veteran EV drivers are often there for us neophytes.

First, some background. I’d always planned to get an electric car eventually – but then, just before Christmas, the petrol engine of our 17-year-old second-hand Subaru finally cooked itself after 360,000-plus kilometres.