Sunday Drive by Hormazd Sorabjee: Maha Mahabaleshwar test

The last time I took an electric car to Mahabaleshwar, I almost never made it. The car in question was the Mercedes EQC, which had a claimed range of 400 km, and hence should have been able to easily do the 280 km drive to the hill station on a single charge. As it turned out, that was wishful thinking. Some 20 km from my destination, I had to make an emergency stop in Panchgani and hunt for a 15 amp plug point to charge an almost empty battery.