That wacky Dutch EV enthusiast who used a Toyota Tundra to charge his Nissan Leaf is back with an even crazier stunt: Driving today’s penultimate stage of the Tour de France.

Everyone knows the Nissan Leaf’s EPA-certified range of 73 miles is a ballpark figure. Some will get more, some less, depending upon how hard you drive and what kind of terrain you cover.

Vincert Elverts and Gaby Zwaan wanted to see how the Leaf would do in the mountains, so they chose a whopper of a course: today’s Tour stage, a 68-mile knee-buster with three monster climbs — including an 8.5-mile slog up the famed Alpe d’Huez. The stage has been won by such greats as Marco Pantani, Lance Armstrong and Andy Hampsten.

Yes, the descents provide a chance to recoup energy through regenerative braking, but we’re talking about battery-killing ascents with an average pitch of 7 to 8 percent. So how’d they do?

Better than you might think…

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