This weekend we decided to test the electric car on long distance so we went to visit the Chateaux de la Loire which are around 250 km from Paris. Driving the car on small roads or on the motorway is a pleasure. There is complete silence broken only be the sound of the wind if the windows are open. On the negative side we rapidly realised that the promised 280km range is true when you are in town or on small roads but when you start going at 140 on the motorway the autonomy comes down significantly to less than 200km. At first it is surprising and can be deemed stressful (more on this subject in a future blog), but once you understand the limitations it means you travel differently. Planning for stops every 1 or 2 hours changes your approach to car travel and makes it fun again. Its probably similar to what it was like in the twenties and thirties when mass travel was just beginning. Overall I'm delighted that Fianna has an electric car which not only allows us to feel smug compared to all these other cars but also forces us to have a completely different approach to long distance travel.
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