Could my marriage survive driving 1,000 miles to Italy?

When my husband and I announced we were going to drive to in our electric car, no one — from my e-biking father to my protesting daughter — thought that it was a good idea.

Friends in Italy told us gloomily that charging stations were scarce as Italians are 'waiting for hydrogen cars' and when I posted our decision on Instagram, it generated its very own doom scroll of responses, suggesting we were at best optimistic, at worst insane.

We bought our electric vehicle (EV) about 18 months ago, an Audi Etron. Its range is around 200 miles, if you turn off the air conditioning. The furthest we had travelled was Dorset, which is about 140 miles from our home in .

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