I have a message for the Volvo team who fetched the all-electric C40 Recharge test car from my Joburg office on Tuesday: I hope I left you enough power to get back to HQ. 

It was only as I left the vehicle for collection the previous evening that I realised there was less than 70km left in the C40’s battery. So much for range anxiety. Apart from a few minutes when it looked like I might have to make a quick trip to Potchefstroom and back, the car’s 444km single-charge limit never crossed my mind. ..

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