From Here, You Can See the Future
A LOT OF UNTHINKABLE THINGS have come to pass over the last few years. Like a global pandemic? I know! No one saw that one coming, right? Except Bill Gates. And, maybe, President Xi Jinping of China.
But I am not talking about the pandemic, I am talking about climate change. A few years ago, could you have imagined us talking about a hybrid Bentley? Or an electric Harley-Davidson? And now we have this, the new plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) Defender. Powered by a turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol four-cylinder along with a 19.2-kWh battery and electric motor, the P400e might not seem remarkable at first, because the drivetrain has already appeared in Range Rovers and a Jaguar F-Pace, but contrast it with an old Series 3 in the 1980s or a 300Tdi Defender in a swirl of sooty particulates and a hybrid Defender is actually amazing.
To test it out, we are going to go on an amazing trip. Here is another story of once unthinkable change: back in 2006, the Danish fashion billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen started buying Scottish sporting estates. Today he owns 90,000 hectares or 555 square kilometres, making him the UK’s biggest landowner. But Povlsen does not want to shoot deer for sport; he wants to return these estates to the wild and re-create a landscape that has not been seen on these islands for 100 years. The project, managed by his company Wildland, came up against a
