“If you’re open-minded, you can have plenty of fun with an electric car like the ID.301,” Rainer Zietlow said. And he should know because Zietlow, originally from Mannheim, and his companion Dominic Brüner from Hannover have spent 65 days travelling the length and breadth of Germany to test the long-distance capabilities of the new Volkswagen model as well as the charging infrastructure across Germany. Despite the restrictions in place due to the coronavirus pandemic and after having covered 28,198 kilometres, the team reached its destination on Sylt as scheduled, marking the end of the marathon test drive (www.ID3-deutschlandtour.com). In the process, the team also set the world record for the “longest continuous EV drive through a single country”.