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he moment you start talking about electric vehicles to a group of car fans (any group of car fans, from boy racers to off-roaders and everything else in between), you can be sure the subject will be met with a whole lot
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of negativity. Call it fear, call it wilful, call it narrow-mindedness, call it outright hate… whatever you call it, EVs still come up against a whole lot of resistance. You may well be feeling it yourself right now. A story about green laning in a Skoda Enyaq iV, seriously? Yes,
seriously. Electric propulsion is not just coming: it’s here. And though it might not yet have wrapped its arms around your own corner of the new car market, it will. The Defender is already a PHEV. The Wrangler is about to follow suit. More and more aftermarket EV conversions for old-
shape Land Rovers are coming on stream. Get used to it. We haven’t yet had a fully electric hardcore off-roader. It’s only a matter of time, though. But for now, let’s focus on the Enyaq iV. It’s our reigning Electric SUV of the Year. It’s very, very good. And unlike most
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