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Despite being an EV convert, fearmongering made me anxious before my holiday. But the summer road trip reaffirmed my faith
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I expected an adventure, and to come back with tales to tell, like running out of charge halfway up a mountain, or making friends for life with a random farmer as the car took all night to charge on their three-point socket.

But, sorry, I have no such tales. This isn’t that kind of article – it all went boringly well. My son had plotted our course on the Zap-Map app, which maps all the chargers across the UK and Ireland, choosing stops that had a backup charger down the road. It was this careful planning that meant I soon stopped anxiously watching the number of miles left on the dashboard display and started to enjoy the drive. We played games, set the world to rights, made up daft songs and laughed at each other’s bad jokes. We did see a lot of service stations and industrial estates, but we never needed any of the backups.