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Citroën e-C4 50kWh Shine Plus
What Car? UK
|February 2022
A lengthy West Country trip is a tough test for our electric hatchback – and the charging infrastructure
Mileage 3515
List price £34,995 (not including £2500 gov’t grant)
Target Price £33,457
Price as tested £35,540
Test range 160 miles
BEING THE EXPERIENCED electric car driver that I (mostly) am, a road trip from London down to west Somerset and back in my Citroën e-C4 held no fear for me. That said, I had no intention of going unprepared and risking a repeat of an incident in 2020; I pushed my luck too far with my MG ZS EV’s range and ended up stranded for hours with an utterly dead car.
This story is from the February 2022 edition of What Car? UK.
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