MY first ‘proper’ electric car was a radio-controlled Tamiya Sand Scorcher, and I still remember my disappointment reading the small print that said playing with it on actual sand dunes risked destroying the running gear and motor. Luckily, such issues needn’t sour anyone’s taste for adventure in a Skoda Enyaq 85x Sportline Plus, and to prove it we’ve just driven one more than 300 miles from the Noor solar station in Ouarzazate, Morocco, to the fringes of the Sahara desert and back, followed by a further 180 miles over the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech.
The trip was designed to showcase the qualities of Skoda’s range-topping electric SUV, and perhaps even to encourage us to start thinking about it in a different way. Different, in that the spectacular route made for such an engrossing automotive adventure that the Enyaq became simply ‘the car’; far from being the focus of attention, the attendant EV label became almost incidental.
Having successfully consigned said label to the back of our minds, it’s fair to say the
