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"Lights and wipers kill your range"
Top Gear
|April 2023
It's a dark wet night and you're gripped by range anxiety.
How much better it'd be, you think, if you could do without those power hungry headlights and wipers. Ah well, there are street lamps, so perhaps you could get by on only sidelights, and running the wipers on intermittent.
This story is from the April 2023 edition of Top Gear.
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