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Practice area dealing with concern about electric cars (7,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

driving range

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'concern about electric cars' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.

'practice area dealing' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'area' could be 'range' (range is a kind of area) and 'range' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'driving' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'with' is the link.

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(Another definition for driving range that I've seen is " Golf without the walk here!".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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