The light bulb moment?

ould it work for me? This is still the critical question with electric cars. Lots of miles on a regular basis and no practical way to charge the car overnight might spell the end. But, we’re so often told, most of us don’t do that many miles in a typical week and many of us are able to at least stretch a cable out the window. However, what’s often lost in these arguments of averages and generalisations is that our cars are seen as most useful not in the regular day-to-day but in the unusual trips out. To see if MG Motor’s latest MG5 EV, an all-electric estate car with a newly improved range of 250 miles on the WTLP mixed cycle, could tackle an unusually heavy round of driving, I borrowed one for a week during the busy