We just got back from the UK, from a whirlwind visit to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The rental car company deemed us as suitable guinea pigs to be upgraded to a fully electric vehicle. Last time we were in the UK, we rented a hybrid, which satisfied the ensuing panic of “what if there are no charging stations where we are going?” The hybrid did have all the bells and whistles, and the adaptive cruise control (I’ll talk more about this) no doubt stopped us from being in a multi-vehicle crash on the motorway.