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WHY WE'RE RUNNING IT
Volkswagen is looking to repeat the glory days with a massive family EV, but is it as easy to love as a bug?
Knowing I was spending Christmas and New Year down on the Cornish coast, I leapt at the chance to grab the keys to the ID Buzz. What better place to take the spiritual successor to the classic Volkswagen camper van? Yes, it has been done before (by this car's keeper last January, no less), but this would be different as I would be taking the Buzz for an extended period, with the family and a dog and much deeper into Cornwall, far away from the tourist hot spot of Newquay.
It also just so happened that my parents were already there and had travelled down in their 2016 Volkswagen California Ocean, so there was an opportunity for an impromptu comparison test.
According to Zap-Map, there are 408 publicly accessible EV chargers in Cornwall, many of them found on the A30- the main road in and out of the county. Others are dotted around the larger towns, some of which would be around 30 miles away from where we would be staying: Lizard, England's southernmost settlement.
This story is from the January 24, 2024 edition of Autocar UK.
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