We get experience of a new, rare and evidently attractive form of plug-in range-extender

It has taken us a couple of months to get our hands on a Leapmotor C10 Hybrid EV – the new D-segment range-extender – because this Chinese manufacturer has been busy launching several models at once as a way of competing with other high-fliers like Jaecoo and BYD.

There has been a lot of attention, for instance, on the smaller Leapmotor B10, which comes in two differently powered forms, and a pure-electric C10 has also been taking its own share of the limelight.