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May 2021
42m 52s

How to make electric cars fun to drive #...

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
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Can electric cars ever be genuinely fun to drive the way the best combustion engine cars are? Dan thinks he's figured it out, but Andrew is going to take some convincing. Ultimately it comes down to the charging infrastructure, because without readily available fast chargers you need a very heavy battery...

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